Carson Wentz Quotes
If you throw the ball 60 times, you are going to make miss some of them. That kind of happens.
Wentz, Carson. "Press Conference." PhiladelphiaEagles.com, Philadelphia Eagles, 4 Dec. 2016.
There is a great tendency in politics and government operations to get extremely precise numbers because political opponents will always attack all numbers that do not support their positions. The result is that typically, so much time and money goes into trying to get precision, that by the time the numbers are good enough the opportunity to make the right policy decision will have passed. Much information that bears on an issue is never used because it is not precise enough while the precise information is not particularly relevant. See {619763} for a similar related quote.
Although this principle is accepted in entertainment, business, sports, science or medicine, politicians cannot seem to accept Caesar’s principle and not only never expect failure but are often in denial and cannot even accept it. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the great exception to this rule. See {642798} and {32356} for some of the examples of his unusual view.
Carson James Wentz is an American football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at North Dakota State University (NDSU), where he won five NCAA FCS national championships. He was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles with the second overall pick of the 2016 NFL Draft, the highest selection ever for an FCS player. In his first year with the Eagles, Wentz set multiple NFL and team rookie records, including most pass attempts and completions by a rookie.
