Famous Quotes & Sayings

I find it perplexing that Nike didn't come here and say they think the shoes are fake.

Walter Benjamin

If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.

Alexander Wang

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

Chris Brown

I'm gonna do clothes, but stuff that kids can afford. I want to get into the high fashion world very soon, but the stuff I want to start out with is the small stuff, for the kids, that anybody can afford the Nikes, or the Jordans, Or let's say they can't afford the big brand name clothes, so I would make a lower end line but still high-quality.

Cathy Freeman

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.

David Duchovny

I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.

Chelsea Handler

I understand that if you're a kid in Indonesia, you need to smoke because you just got off work at the Nike factory.

Nike said they would just waltz in and be successful. That did not happen.

Chris Chelios

Nike is renting it out for the whole week.

Nike has had a long-standing relationship with A-Rod and this just formalizes it,

Andre Agassi

Nike and I reached terms on all my stuff with no problem,

Anna Wintour

With all the new media outlets out there, with all the noise, a voice of authority and calm like Vogue becomes more important than ever. The more eyes on fashion, the more opinions about fashion, the more exploration of fashion around the world, the better it is for Vogue. Vogue is like Nike or Coca-Cola—this huge global brand. I want to enhance it, I want to protect it, and I want it to be part of the conversation.

Dev Patel

Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

Dean Karnazes

The only one who can tell you "You can't" is you. And you don't have to listen.-Nike

Douglas Rushkoff

Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.

Andrew Young

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Christopher McDougall

Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and seemingly impossible project: finding a way to make a buck off a naked foot.

Ben Howland

I saw him at Nike camp. He played hard. He was under the radar.

Devon Sawa

Live long, play hard... oh wait that's Nike

David Letterman

Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs in his shoes and the problem all started when the flight attendants asked him nicely to extinguish his feet. He was wearing exploding sneakers. The new Nike Air-Jihads!

Adrienne Bailon

You can be afraid to voice your opinions but you just fight through it. It's like NIKE okay you just do it.

Jason Mewes

It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.

In every single region in the world, it is now a two-horse race between Nike and Adidas.

Muhammad Ali

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

Jay Leno

Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama.

Kid Cudi

Dim them lights get it in pimp tight do wat i do i lace up my own nikes.

Jessica Seinfeld

My Nike Free sneakers add a splash of color and slide on fast, perfect for when Im rushing to catch the school bus. And my favorite cargos are skinny but stretchy, so I can go up or down a few pounds and they still fit!

Naomi Klein

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

Naomi Klein

Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.

Mark Ronson

Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.

Hunter S. Thompson

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

Hugh Jackman

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

Jello Biafra

When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the world to me, and I didn't feel this was the way it ought to be used.