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Winning means being unafraid to lose.
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Happiness
Inspiring
Success
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Television isn't my career. Business is.
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Careers
Television
Business Career
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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Doe
Facts
Going Away
Nfl
Go
Does
Away
Go Away
Ignoring
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In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
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Sports
Team
Winning
Individuals
Teams
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If it's not fun, you are not doing it right.
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Fun
Ifs
Motivation
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Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.
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Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.
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Play
Quarterback
Plays
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It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.
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Long
Quitting
Want
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I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.
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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want
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Inspirational
Positive
Success
Views
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Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.
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Inspirational
Sports
Athlete
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If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
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Business
Good Times
Right Time
Waiting
Life Time Good
Life Time Business
All Your Life
Times
Wait
Right
Start
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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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Motivational
Sports
Football
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When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.
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Breaking Down
Football
Pockets
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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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Needs
Quarterback
Team
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The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
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America
Capitalism
Free Market
Greatness
Market
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It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.
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Sports
Cheer
People
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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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Special
Thinking
Wonderful
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That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
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Judging
Play
Quarterback
Want
Judge
Mechanics
Plays
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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.
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Motivational
Sports
Creativity
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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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Giving
Mean
Perfect
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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.
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Show Business
Time Business Thinking
Every Time
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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.
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New York
Book
Editors
Former
New York Times
Amateur
Bestseller
Editor
Magazine
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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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Different
Information
Opening
Source
Engage
Hear
Sources
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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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Great Team
Greatness
Quarterback
Struggle
Team
Good Great Better
Struggling
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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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Desire
Inspire
Loser
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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.
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Leadership
Sports
Play
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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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Dollars
Numbers
People
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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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Athlete
Demand
Games
Pro Athlete
Thinking
Celebrities
Contract
Pro
Signs
Tale
Thinks
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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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Success
Mean
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