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  • Television Personality
  • born 1940
  • 30 quotes

Fran Tarkenton, Television Personality (born 1940), is quoted 30 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Sports, Quarterback, Success and Team.

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Winning means being unafraid to lose.

Television isn't my career. Business is.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

If it's not fun, you are not doing it right.

Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.

Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.

It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.

I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.

Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.

What's so wonderful about business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.

The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

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