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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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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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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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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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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Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.
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The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.
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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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We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Everyone must have a voice, and everyone deserves clarity.
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I'm a sporting goods guy.
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Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
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I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.
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I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.
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Employees get things done. Partners get things done done. But owners get things done done done.