Phil Knight Quotes

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

Phil Knight

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• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Business
  • Together

• I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!

  

  Kajol
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Road

• I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Men
  • Business
  • English

• I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Business
  • Acting
  • Show

• I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • People
  • Sports
  • Confidence

• I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Trying
  • Balance
  • Hollywood

• In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Audience

• Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Day
  • Find
  • Grateful

• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Business
  • You
  • Dress

• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Play
  • Dangerous
  • Boyfriend

• Yellow's more like, I'm not trying to be this sexy vixen or anything, obviously. I'm a very friendly person, and I literally do just want to be your friend. I think all of that is wrapped up in yellow. It seems to work. I like being in it.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

  

  Jay Griffiths

• When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.

  

  Emmanuelle Chriqui
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• When I woke up from that dream, brother, I was like, "Okay, I've got to know what that was, what happened." That was not an average dream. I've had some dreams in my days, but not like that. It was way too vivid. Looking back, the reason that dream makes more sense today than it did then is, we are in a digital world. Back then, it was an analog world. Everything was digital in the dream.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Dream
  • Brother
  • Woke Up

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.

  

  Miranda Lambert

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

  

  Phil Knight
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Sports