Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fran Tarkenton Quotes & Sayings

Enjoy the top 28 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Fran Tarkenton.

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Pinterest Share on Linkedin

Famous Quotes By Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1969715

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. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 998307

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. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1891505

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

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1238297

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. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1850280

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. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 2028661

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. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 827299

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

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1827800

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

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1238420

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. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 2236123

Innovation is business unusual. It's about actually doing stuff so that you can learn from the doing. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 2190185

In sports, teams win and individuals don't. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 2069979

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

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1823555

Television isn't my career. Business is. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1742186

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. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1590524

As I see it now - and as I saw it back then - you learn the most about career, life, business, and yourself by taking every opportunity to move outside of your comfort zone. By definition, the comfortable and the familiar have nothing new to teach you. The most successful people in life and business are innovators. By definition, innovators need to be uncomfortable. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1513468

Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1332189

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

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 252695

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

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1033473

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

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 1021576

Ignoring facts does not make them go away. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 987404

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

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 872798

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. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 812820

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

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 779709

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

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 730056

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. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 602231

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? — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 451505

Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays. — Fran Tarkenton

Fran Tarkenton Quotes 408524

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. — Fran Tarkenton