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

Fran Tarkenton

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Fran Tarkenton
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: February 3
American Football Player
Television Personality
Richmond
Virginia
Francis Asbury Tarkenton
Quit
Quitting
Perfectly
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