Kevin Plank Quotes
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I run five miles three times a week; I log everything. I look up routes when I travel.
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Winning, I believe, is a culture just as much as losing is.
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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.
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At some point in your life, you'll find yourself in a similar position: Surrounded by people who are smarter, faster, who have more experience and more money - and you'll just have to find a way. And you'll have to do it with passion.
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My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.
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I wanted to make the world's greatest football undershirt. But I realized that no team sport had equipment for apparel. Apparel was an afterthought.
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People of Baltimore, if you want to simply learn a new trade, if you want to join the Foundry, it's a membership. It's like joining a gym, and you can go and meet other entrepreneurs like you. You can talk about how to get financing. You can take a class on how to sew. You can take a class and say, 'I want to be an electrician.'
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I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.
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I'm a sporting goods guy.
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Go find out if you can make your product. Once you make it, stop projecting what's going to happen and go find out whether your product can sell. Find out whether someone is willing to take hard-earned cash out of their pocket and exchange it for your product.
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All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land.
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Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.
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Stop with the stupid messages. I don't need a message that says, 'Go on, you can do it today.' What does that mean?!
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People say they'll pay more for something made in the U.S., but they won't actually do it.
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Great companies have to manage the cadence of what they do.
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Everyone must have a voice, and everyone deserves clarity.
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We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.
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My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.
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I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.
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Your attitude is contagious.
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The best merchants in the world aren't the ones predicting what's cool next; we're the ones dictating what's cool next.
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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.
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I can't imagine trying to operate a company banking on the fact that my logo is cooler than somebody else's logo.
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I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.