Top 111 Phil Quotes

I’m Phil Knight, and I don’t believe in advertising.
Phil Knight
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March ’87. He was out in December ’86.
Eddie Campbell
Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross… they are the best.
Giorgio Moroder
Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him.
Katharine Graham
Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.
Jeff Van Gundy
I’m expecting big things from our bowlers, from Peter Siddle, who plays the enforcer role, Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee when he gets fit again. In batting, there’s Phil Hughes, whose already done well for Australia and scored hundreds for Middlesex.
Glenn McGrath
Phil is always a quotable guy. He keeps everyone entertained.
Jeanie Buss
It's a rule of 'Deadhead-dom' to claim to hate Donna Go

It’s a rule of ‘Deadhead-dom’ to claim to hate Donna Godchaux and always say, ‘Phil makes the band,’ though I think that pronouncement was proved inaccurate after Jerry died.
Ann Coulter
The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who’s very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he’s ever done has always been charted.
Ben E. King
True Dare Kiss’ is a gothic drama about a highly dysfunctional Mancunian family who, after 20 years, reconvene for the funeral of their father. I wanted to play Phil because I really liked the character, and there is an element of mystery about her – which I can’t reveal.
Dervla Kirwan
If LeBron James, Phil Mickelson, or Reggie Bush had to rely on personality to make it in this world, they’d all be incredibly athletic rodeo clowns.
Sean Evans
Phil is a child of Holocaust survivors.
Monica Horan
The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there – the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan was great, but everybody touched the ball, everybody cut, everybody moved. It was just so hard to guard.
Mike Budenholzer
When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren’t like – it wasn’t even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman’s case.
Bill Hader
It’s mostly the coaches the refs don’t like. Like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich. Jackson is a master at setting up refs, always telling them they’re against his team, playing mind games.
Tim Donaghy
There’s a whole other chapter of my life where I was, for 15 years, the significant other of coach Phil Jackson.
Jeanie Buss
I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don’t know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.
Fred Couples
I’m not saying Gustafsson isn’t a champion. He’s not the champion that I am. He’s not a champion at all. I’ve won the belt seven times. He got tapped out by Phil Davis and lost to me fair and square. This guy gets so much praise. Having a close fight with me was the greatest thing he’s ever done.
Jon Jones
Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I’ll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn’t have a chance.
Butch Trucks
The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins’ record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.
Deborah Cox
Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He’s had great experience.
David Moyes
Numerous candidates lose their first White House race and try again four years later – but all of them do so after running surprisingly well the first time. No one ever talked about John Connally or Phil Gramm running again.
Steve Kornacki
No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.
Dick Van Dyke
Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn’t he use his last name?
Garry Shandling
When you speak of the Pat Rileys, the Phil Jacksons, you have to speak of Don Nelson and the success that he has had in the game.
Scottie Pippen
My favorite line to Phil is, ‘You can say the right thing on TV, but why can’t you do it in real life?’
Monica Horan
The deadnettle is the Punxsutawney Phil of the plant world: short of stature but stout of heart. At the first hint of winter’s wane, its stem rises from the ground, and a green, grasping hand of sepals unclenches to divulge two silky-white petals, one of which unfurls straight up toward the sky.
Hope Jahren
You wouldn’t expect it to look at him, but in a life-threatening situation you should always turn to Phillip Schofield. On a desert island he would be perfect. Phil is very practical and would build you an amazing shack as well as keep you entertained with all his hundreds of stories.
Holly Willoughby
You go into the book store, there’s the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women’s health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope.
Sandra Tsing Loh
I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.
Andy Dick
I’m a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it’s something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.
Mike Myers
I always thought I’d be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I’m mourning my brother Phil.
Don Everly
Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.
Jason Alexander
I started with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, Jr. and the rest of the wonderful cast of ‘A Raisin In The Sun.’ We were directed by the great Lloyd Richards. The play was written by the wonderful Lorraine Hansberry, and it was produced by Phil Rose. That’s where my start was, so… not a bad way to start.
Glynn Turman
The game is getting younger and the game is getting better. It has to do with Tiger and Phil, largely, inspiring everybody and brought a lot more youth into the game of golf.
Jordan Spieth
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place – folk music, rock n’ roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
Sam Barry
Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell ‘my’ sex change story but I’ve never appeared on his show for any reason… not even as a member of the studio audience.
Eileen Davidson
Whenever I hear people crying about Kobe yelling at people in practice or wondering whether or not LeBron is best friends with his teammates, I just roll my eyes. You know how many off-court conversations I had with the Zen-Master Phil Jackson in my entire time with the Lakers? One.
Robert Horry
I have known Phil Neville personally for 25 years, sinc

I have known Phil Neville personally for 25 years, since I was in the Class of 92 at Manchester United with his brother Gary, and Im going to stick up for him because he is a top, top bloke and a proper family man.
Robbie Savage
I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.
Ronnie Spector
Dr. Phil is a fat, loud blowhard with a Texas twang and male-pattern baldness.
Bianca Del Rio
Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn’t he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don’t talk to him.
Ian St. John
I did meet ‘The Everly Brothers’ once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil’s father, Ike Everly.
James Best
Phil Handy played for me in England and has obviously risen to stardom in his area of what he does.
Nick Nurse
If you think back to the days of Phil Anderson, when there were very few Australians to now when you have a Tour de France winner in Cadel Evans, a professional team in GreenEDGE, and classics winners in Stuart O’Grady and Matt Goss – the sport is bigger and bigger in Australia.
Eddy Merckx
When Phil Taylor is in the field – no matter whether it’s tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace – he is the man to beat.
Eric Bristow
In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.
Gregory Benford
I can’t compare myself to Phil Jackson in any way, shape or form. His view on the world and his intellectual approach, I don’t have that in common with him.
Jeanie Buss
Phil is a real drummer’s drummer.
Colin Greenwood
The world’s most successful tournament competitors – like me, Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren, Phil Hellmuth, and countless others – like to play small ball poker. It’s a style that we use to steadily increase our stacks in no limit hold’em tournaments without having to assume significant risk.
Daniel Negreanu