Kevin Plank Quotes
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Winning, I believe, is a culture just as much as losing is.
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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.
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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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It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.
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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.
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Everyone must have a voice, and everyone deserves clarity.
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The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.
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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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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 say they'll pay more for something made in the U.S., but they won't actually do it.
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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.
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Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.
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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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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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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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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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We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.
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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.
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I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.
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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 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 was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.
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Your attitude is contagious.
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Employees get things done. Partners get things done done. But owners get things done done done.