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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?'

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

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

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.

Where can we take no the product, but the idea?

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.

Where they had once ambled alone, they now walked together home.

To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.