I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.

Make history or be a part of it.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

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

We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Education is a process of cultivating diamonds in a field called the mind.

If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. —Richard Due

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.