Top Nike Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Nike quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of John J. Sweeney
A core part of the global market is what might be called the 'Nike Economy' - footloose companies that play countries against one another while seeking subcontractors with the lowest wages and cheapest conditions.
- John J. Sweeney
Collection: Nike
Image of Max Barry
I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas - for generics, for Christ's sake.
- Max Barry
Collection: Nike
Image of Phil Knight
Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.
- Phil Knight
Collection: Nike
Image of Phil Knight
Now we understand that the most important thing we do is market the product. We've come around to saying that Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.
- Phil Knight
Collection: Nike
Image of Michael Bierut
The Nike swash that cost $30 and was designed by a Portland State University art student was probably worth that when she first showed it to them. At that point it had no equity at all. None of the guys commissioning it particularly liked it, they all wanted the Adidas three stripes and they thought that was a good logo.
- Michael Bierut
Collection: Nike
Image of Thomas DiLorenzo
America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.
- Thomas DiLorenzo
Collection: Nike
Image of Jessica Seinfeld
My Nike Free sneakers add a splash of color and slide on fast, perfect for when Im rushing to catch the school bus. And my favorite cargos are skinny but stretchy, so I can go up or down a few pounds and they still fit!
- Jessica Seinfeld
Collection: Nike
Image of John Sweeney
Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
- John Sweeney
Collection: Nike
Image of Adrienne Bailon
You can be afraid to voice your opinions but you just fight through it. It's like NIKE okay you just do it.
- Adrienne Bailon
Collection: Nike
Image of David Duchovny
I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.
- David Duchovny
Collection: Nike
Image of Mark Parker
Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.
- Mark Parker
Collection: Nike
Image of Fashawn
Where I'm from, life's a gamble, grab the dice/'Fore I leave, pray to God, then I grab my Nikes
- Fashawn
Collection: Nike
Image of Nate Robinson
I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp [in Indianapolis]. They share the ball well; I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20 -- they do what they have to do to help the team.
- Nate Robinson
Collection: Nike
Image of Anthony Watson
NIKE is focused on elevating and accelerating innovation in our products, services and our digital ecosystem. This requires progressive and agile technology solutions that keep pace with our growth, which is what Juniper's solutions offer.
- Anthony Watson
Collection: Nike
Image of Antonio Cromartie
We used a racquetball and threw it off the wall as hard as we could, then tracked it down with our eyes and feet. Nike has new balls that bounce all sorts of different directions and really help you learn to track the ball and move your feet to react quickly.
- Antonio Cromartie
Collection: Nike
Image of Johannes Grenzfurthner
Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' were marketing gurus who wanted to know what they shouldn't do.
- Johannes Grenzfurthner
Collection: Nike
Image of Sonny Vaccaro
Beginning in 1978, Nike paid coaches to put their shoes on the team.
- Sonny Vaccaro
Collection: Nike
Image of Sonny Vaccaro
In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for the business side of the game.
- Sonny Vaccaro
Collection: Nike
Image of Sonny Vaccaro
After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.
- Sonny Vaccaro
Collection: Nike
Image of Mark Hosler
Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store... Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm... Nike."
- Mark Hosler
Collection: Nike
Image of Ricardo Nunes
Brasil used to have - and still has, in some ways - a strong culture of showing off. And that's not only in sneakers and streetwear. People like to show how much their sneakers cost, usually by rocking performance models with visible technology, like Nike Shox, adidas Springblade and ASICS Noosa. It's like a status symbol for someone that wants to show to the world they "succeeded in life," no matter how rich they actually are.
- Ricardo Nunes
Collection: Nike
Image of Frank Zindler
There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.
- Frank Zindler
Collection: Nike
Image of Pietra Rivoli
But by shining these lights in different places, they really have uncovered things that companies in their own interest are trying to clean up. We're not going to get rid of the realities of global competition. But these companies, like Nike or Gap, have global brands that they want to protect.
- Pietra Rivoli
Collection: Nike
Image of Zach Braff
Sure, they are the future of our world. Nike and Reebok need more factory workers every day.
- Zach Braff
Collection: Nike
Image of Assata Shakur
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.
- Assata Shakur
Collection: Nike
Image of Chris Brown
I'm gonna do clothes, but stuff that kids can afford. I want to get into the high fashion world very soon, but the stuff I want to start out with is the small stuff, for the kids, that anybody can afford the Nikes, or the Jordans, Or let's say they can't afford the big brand name clothes, so I would make a lower end line but still high-quality.
- Chris Brown
Collection: Nike
Image of Andrew Young
Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
- Andrew Young
Collection: Nike
Image of Jello Biafra
When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the world to me, and I didn't feel this was the way it ought to be used.
- Jello Biafra
Collection: Nike
Image of Kanye West
Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
- Kanye West
Collection: Nike
Image of Gary Vaynerchuk
Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Collection: Nike
Image of Anna Wintour
With all the new media outlets out there, with all the noise, a voice of authority and calm like Vogue becomes more important than ever. The more eyes on fashion, the more opinions about fashion, the more exploration of fashion around the world, the better it is for Vogue. Vogue is like Nike or Coca-Cola—this huge global brand. I want to enhance it, I want to protect it, and I want it to be part of the conversation.
- Anna Wintour
Collection: Nike
Image of Muhammad Ali
I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.
- Muhammad Ali
Collection: Nike
Image of Ana Castillo
I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear for the future of my boy. He's nine-and- a-half and dark-skinned. By the time he's 12 or 13, who knows who he's going to be identifying with in these days when you get shot down for wearing expensive Nikes to school...I've heard that if a Latino makes it to 19 years of age, he has a good chance of surviving into adulthood. Up until then, you don't know.
- Ana Castillo
Collection: Nike
Image of Michael Bierut
If you ask people in the US what logos they like and recognise, they'll name Target or Nike.
- Michael Bierut
Collection: Nike
Image of George Carlin
When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.
- George Carlin
Collection: Nike
Image of Sheryl Crow
Beatle's wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni.
- Sheryl Crow
Collection: Nike
Image of Pusha T
When I think back to my influences and icons musically, they were my icons musically because, for example, I would look at Rakim and be like man he said the freshest things and then I look at him and he would have on the pair of Nikes that I wanted and I'm like, "ma' please!" It was everything. Now, I sort of feel like if you are fresh then your music doesn't have to be that good because people are so keyed into the fashion. That's just the times I guess.
- Pusha T
Collection: Nike
Image of Pusha T
About the Sauconys, there are a lot of sneakers that are not as marketed as heavily as like Nike but those silhouettes are still fresh. I'll always go to a Saucony.
- Pusha T
Collection: Nike
Image of Kid Cudi
Dim them lights get it in pimp tight do wat i do i lace up my own nikes.
- Kid Cudi
Collection: Nike
Image of Riccardo Tisci
This is why I decided to work with Nike, too, because it is even more mass-market than Givenchy and could make entry-price shoes and make people dream to be part of the journey.
- Riccardo Tisci
Collection: Nike
Image of Temple Grandin
An animal’s memory is not in words, they’ve got to be in pictures – it’s very detailed so let’s say the animal gets afraid of something. Like, for example you beat the dog up and they're looking at you and your Nike shoes or any sneaker or anything like a Nike, he's likely to be afraid of that - so anything without that Nike wingtip, he's likely to be fine. If you think about it, that's a different picture, than a Nike type shoe. Its specific because its sensory based.
- Temple Grandin
Collection: Nike
Image of Cathy Freeman
I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.
- Cathy Freeman
Collection: Nike
Image of Laurell K. Hamilton
Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Collection: Nike
Image of Chelsea Handler
I understand that if you're a kid in Indonesia, you need to smoke because you just got off work at the Nike factory.
- Chelsea Handler
Collection: Nike
Image of Dean Karnazes
The only one who can tell you "You can't" is you. And you don't have to listen.-Nike
- Dean Karnazes
Collection: Nike
Image of Naomi Klein
Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.
- Naomi Klein
Collection: Nike
Image of David Letterman
Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs in his shoes and the problem all started when the flight attendants asked him nicely to extinguish his feet. He was wearing exploding sneakers. The new Nike Air-Jihads!
- David Letterman
Collection: Nike
Image of Dov Davidoff
Nike store won't accept my Starbucks card as payment. Come on guys, just do it.
- Dov Davidoff
Collection: Nike
Image of Jay Leno
Nike actually has a pair of shoes called Air-Turbulence. Try getting past airline security wearing those. Might as well call them Air-Osama.
- Jay Leno
Collection: Nike