Football Quotes by Phil Knight

11 Football quotes by Phil Knight

Phil Knight’s entrepreneurial spirit see through in these eleven concise thoughts on football. The snippets balance business‑like clarity with the passion that fuels a competitive arena.

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Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

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

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“We spent a few minutes catching up. I told Bowerman about my trip around the world. Kobe, Jordan, the Temple of Nike.”

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You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

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“I wanted to win. No, that’s not right. I simply didn’t want to lose. And”

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“Like it or not, life is a game. Whoever denies that truth, whoever simply refuses to play,”

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If you're trying to get into the sports business, you really have to find a niche.

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“There's kind of exuberant clarity in that pulsing half second before winning and losing are decided.”

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“Like it or not, life is a game. Whoever denies that truth, whoever simply refuses to play, gets gets left on the…

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“This I decided is what sports are, what they can do. Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other…

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“I redefined winning, expanded it beyond my original definition of not losing, of merely staying alive. That was no longer enough to…

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“Why is it always so hard to get started?”

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Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

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“Life is growth, You grow or you die.”

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“If my life was to be all work no play, I wanted my work to be play.”

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“he was all the colors of an Easter egg.”

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“what I knew that morning in March 1977 as we settled around the conference table. I wasn’t even sure how these guys reached us,…

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“When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some service or product to the lives of strangers…

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“It’s possible that we were never closer, maybe because our relationship had been reduced to its primal essence. He was my dad, I was…

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“Oneness—in some way, shape, or form, it’s what every person I’ve ever met has been seeking.”

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