Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin Plank - Page 2

I run five miles three times a week; I log everything. I look up routes when I travel.

I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don't know it all and that they're dying to learn.

The Small Business Administration was fundamental in helping our company. There's great initiative from the government if you know the right places to look.

My kids have been watching a lot of 'My Little Pony,' and it's rubbing off on me.

Everybody is an expert. But at Under Armour, I want people to control what they can control. Leave the pontificating to everyone else. Leave all that negative talk to everyone else.

Being green means preventing waste.

I want Baltimore to be the coolest city in the world.

Stop with the stupid messages. I don't need a message that says, 'Go on, you can do it today.' What does that mean?!

Nothing ever surprises me about the market.

We don't tell a 17-year-old kid that Nike sucks, because the fact of the matter is, Nike doesn't suck. They're actually very good at what they do.

I'm a sporting goods guy.

People look great in leggings and shorts and athletic clothes.

The ability to touch people and literally change lives is incredibly relevant in a consumer-products company.

The idea of insider information to me is almost, like, laughable.

I love Monopoly. You know why? When I play Monopoly with you, I'm going to buy everything from Baltic Avenue to Marvin Gardens. If you get to my side of the board, you'd better roll boxcars, or you're going to pay rent.

I don't have the option of getting fat. I like to try as much of our products as I can. Our sample size is size large, and I can't fit into our samples unless I'm at that size.

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea. But it's also about who you know.

There is some little boy and some little girl out there, somewhere, who believe that when they put Under Armour on, they can do just a little bit more.

I can't imagine trying to operate a company banking on the fact that my logo is cooler than somebody else's logo.

I don't believe in flagship retail, because the definition of flagship retail is that it's a marketing expense, and it's going to lose money.

San Francisco is one of the worst-dressed cities in the world, bar none.

We don't care which products you like, but you should be using UnderArmour.com - which is now MapMyFitness - and having a reason to visit us every day.

I love Under Armour, and I would like stockholders to know that I am very committed to our company.

Don't ever, ever devalue your product. Ever. It's the worst thing anyone can do to hurt your brand.

Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.

I like people who go. I love energy.

If you're going to start a company, it's not going to be in the millions of dollars, but it's going to be something - for a lot of these kids - out of the trunk of their car, the same way that I did.

Passion means finding a way.

In my industry, a shirt and a shoe are still made the exact same way they were 80 years ago.

People say they'll pay more for something made in the U.S., but they won't actually do it.

I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.

It's absurd that you know more about your car than you know about your body.

Great brands are meant to be great aggregators.

Winning, I believe, is a culture just as much as losing is.

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

Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day.

Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

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.