Fran Tarkenton Quotes

• Winning means being unafraid to lose.

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  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

  Fran Tarkenton, Tad Tuleja (1986). “How to motivate people: the team strategy for success”, Harpercollins

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• Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.

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

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  Long, Want, Quitting

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• 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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  Success, Mean, Views

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from May 22, 2013

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• 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.

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  Inspire, Desire, Loser

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

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  Fun, Motivation, Ifs

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

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  Motivational, Sports, Football

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from Oct 22, 2014

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• 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?

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  Different, Information, Source

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from Jun 03, 2013

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• 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.

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  Mean, Giving, Perfect

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

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• 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.

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  Numbers, People, Dollars

  "3 Business Myths People Should Stop Believing" by Fran Tarkenton, www.businessinsider.com. January 14, 2015.

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• In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

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  Sports, Team, Winning

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

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  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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

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  Waiting, Good Times, Right Time

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

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  Thinking, Special, Wonderful

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from May 28, 2013

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• 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.

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  Motivational, Sports, Creativity

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

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  Football, Pockets, Breaking Down

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• Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

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  Nfl, Going Away, Doe

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• 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.

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  Leadership, Sports, Play

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

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  Sports, Cheer, People

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

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  Team, Needs, Quarterback

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• 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.

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  Athlete, Thinking, Games

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• Television isn't my career. Business is.

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  Careers, Television

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

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  Greatness, America, Free Market

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from Jun 19, 2013

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• 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.

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  Team, Struggle, Greatness

  "Ryan Michael's Exclusive Interview with Vikings HOF Quarterback: Fran Tarkenton". bleacherreport.com. January 30, 2010.

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