208 Quotes by Phil Knight

Shoe dogs were people who devoted themselves wholly to the making, selling, buying, or designing of shoes.

He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to-equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.

It doesn’t matter how many people you offend, as long as you’re getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising.

I don’t know how long after that day I discovered the Aristophanes play, set in the Temple of Nike, in which the warrior gives the king a gift – a pair of new shoes. I don’t know when I figured out that the play was called Knights.

You haven’t lived until you’ve competed against the fastest runners in the world wearing shoes made of cod.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. Of.

We also gave him a business card that said National Director of Public Affairs. People often narrowed their eyes and asked me what that meant. I narrowed my eyes right back. “It means he can run fast,” I said.

Every runner understands this. Front runners always work the hardest, and risk the most. Long.

I tell the man Blue Ribbon is sinking like the Titanic, and he responds by begging for a berth in first class.