"Winning means being unafraid to lose."
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"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."
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"It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't."
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"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."
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"Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced."
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"If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want"
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"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?"
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"In sports, teams win and individuals don't."
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"What's so wonderful about business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass."
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"I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get."
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"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."
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"Ignoring facts does not make them go away."
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"If it's not fun, you are not doing it right."
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"The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business."
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"Television isn't my career. Business is."
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"Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better."
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