Nike Sports Quotes

#1. Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

Felix Dennis

#2. Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.

James Surowiecki

#3. I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I'd forgotten. I was toast. I was boyfriend roadkill.

Rick Riordan

#4. The first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun ...

Laurie R. King

#5. I'm just working hard because I know that's the way you can get things done. That's how I've been able to be successful.

Torrey Smith

#6. It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

David Stern

#7. Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.

Anais Nin

#8. Deaths of all kinds echo on. And sometimes, it seems, they drown out all of life.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#9. You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

Gwyneth Paltrow

#10. We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Phil Knight