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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Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.
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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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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 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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We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.
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The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.
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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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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 don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.
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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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When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'
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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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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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Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
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I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.
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Don't ever, ever devalue your product. Ever. It's the worst thing anyone can do to hurt your brand.
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I'm a sporting goods guy.
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The idea of insider information to me is almost, like, laughable.
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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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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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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.