Quotes from Fran Tarkenton

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.

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

Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.

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

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

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.

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

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.

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

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

Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.

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

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.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

Television isn't my career. Business is.