I truly believe the American consumer doesn’t want to buy products made under abusive conditions.

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.

She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

You're my depth gauge. If I see your hat floatin', I'll stop.

No one can understand what’s the best thing for you to do, other than yourself.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.