Fran Tarkenton Quotes
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.
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Life is about timing.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.
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The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
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The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them.
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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
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Being disappointed is sometimes an inevitable outcome that no one can control.
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In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
