Quotes About Kevin Plank

#1. My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.

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#2. I'm usually a pretty intense person. Give me an inch, and I'm going to go.

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#3. Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

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#4. Your attitude is contagious.

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#5. One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.

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#7. I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

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#8. It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

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#9. I wanted to make the world's greatest football undershirt. But I realized that no team sport had equipment for apparel. Apparel was an afterthought.

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#10. When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'

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#11. Where can we take no the product, but the idea?

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#12. One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.

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#13. All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land.

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#14. To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

David Ben-Gurion

#15. Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

Salman Rushdie

#16. As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.

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#17. We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

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#18. Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

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#19. I thought her looking as she always does: superior in all respects to everyone around her

Charles Dickens

#20. I wake up in the morning and I think about one brand. I don't have enough time to wake up twice and think about two.

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#21. I've always been a hustler.

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#22. In a long life there are thirty or thirty-five thousand days to be got through, but only a few dozen that really matter, Big Days when Something Momentous Happens. The rest - the vast majority, tens of thousands of days - are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous.

William Landay

#23. Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

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#24. You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.

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#25. Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

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#26. My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.

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#27. Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Voltaire

#28. I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.

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#29. You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.

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#30. Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the winter. Why not make a better piece of equipment for underneath the shoulder pads?

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#31. The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

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#32. I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

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#33. Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

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