Top 38 Tarkenton Quotes
#3. If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Fran Tarkenton
#4. The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
Fran Tarkenton
#5. 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
#6. As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated.
Jonathan Miller
#7. You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.
Alice Walker
#8. It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.
Fran Tarkenton
#10. The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#11. One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.
George Lucas
#12. When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.
Fran Tarkenton
#13. Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.
Shannon Hoon
#15. Innovation is business unusual. It's about actually doing stuff so that you can learn from the doing.
Fran Tarkenton
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#24. It was like ... like wizardry, but without the wizards and the mess.
Terry Pratchett
#25. 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
#26. If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
Fran Tarkenton
#27. You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are.
Katie Dale
#28. I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.
Fran Tarkenton
#29. 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
#30. Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
Fran Tarkenton
#31. There may be thunder in Europe but it is in America the lightning will fall
Ambrose Bierce
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.
Saul Bellow
#36. God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come.
Tommy Tenney
#37. America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.
Ahmed Chalabi
#38. It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.
Fran Tarkenton
