Famous Quotes & Sayings

Devon Sawa

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

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.

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.

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,

Ben Howland

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Cathy Freeman

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

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.

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.

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

Mark Parker

Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

Phil Knight

Now we understand that the most important thing we do is market the product. We've come around to saying that Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.

Phil Knight

Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool

John Sweeney

Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

Sheryl Crow

Beatle's wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni.

Sonny Vaccaro

In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for the business side of the game.

Sonny Vaccaro

After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.

Sonny Vaccaro

Beginning in 1978, Nike paid coaches to put their shoes on the team.

Temple Grandin

Like, for example you beat the dog up and they're looking at you and your Nike shoes or any sneaker or anything like a Nike, he's likely to be afraid of that - so anything without that Nike wingtip, he's likely to be fine. If you think about it, that's a different picture, than a Nike type shoe. Its specific because its sensory based.

Tim Ferriss

Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.

Rick Riordan

The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream. "Leo!" Jason was shaking his shoulder. "Hey, man, why are you hugging Nike?" Leo's eyes fluttered open. His arms were wrapped around the human-sized statue in Athena's hand. He must have been thrashing in his sleep. He clung to the victory goddess like he used to cling to his pillow when he had nightmares as a kid. (Man, that had been so embarrassing in the foster homes.) He disentangled himself and sat up, rubbing his face. "Nothing," he muttered. "we were just cuddling. Um, what's going on?