Fran Tarkenton

Television isn't my career. Business is. ”

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

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

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 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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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