Top 66 Nike Quotes

I grew up wearing PUMA, and our national team is sponsored by PUMA, so those were always in the store. We couldn’t afford Nike or Jordan, so PUMA was our brand. If you were wearing PUMA, that’s dope.

Now that I’m officially signed with Nike to get to race with the Oregon Project, it’s definitely a dream come true.

Nike is like a member of the family. Undoubtedly some of that stuff is in my DNA.

In the ‘Nike Economy,’ there are no standards, no borders and no rules. 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.

Ever since I signed with Nike I definitely got a crazy amount of shoes.

Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.

I’m like Nike, just do it.

I was maybe halfway through my career, and I was shooting a Nike commercial, and the director came to the trailer and said, ‘Hey man, you’re really gifted at this. I get a lot of athletes that come in, but you were prepared, and you made everything seem very natural. I really think you should look into this.’

We wanted Nike to be the world’s best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don’t end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

We’re not trying to be Nike. It’s about evolving into new products that are going to make people’s lives better.

I want to be like the Nike or Apple of children’s books.

I started thinking, ‘What if Superman or Batman really existed?’ Superman would be doing Nike commercials. The members of Youngblood take the genre of super-heroes and turn it into a business.

When people ask what college I graduated from, I say: I didn’t graduate from college. I graduated from Nike. I started my career as an intern getting coffee.

I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I’d wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers.

My favorite leisurewear brands are Lululemon and Nike. They feel like a second skin, they never restrict my movements, and they keep me cool and warm.

As a company, I’m proud that Nike takes a stand on issues that impact all of us, our athletes, and society as a whole. And I am proud that Nike stands against discrimination in any form. We stand against bigotry. We stand for racial justice. We firmly believe the world can improve.

The Nike joint ‘Classic’ with Kanye, Nas, KRS-One, that was a remix – Rick Rubin did the original, and his was a double-time tempo; mine was a regular boom-bap tempo, and they liked it so much that we ended up doing the video to it.

The LeBron 11, for $200, has hyperposite construction – a combination of Foamposite material and performance synthetics – and a new layer of Lunarlon cushioning; and anyway, Nike generates about $300 million off the sneakers.

My favorite basketball shoe is the ’92 Nike Uptempo – white/black/turquoise or you can go with the all black/white, which I loved.

Storytelling is the game. It’s what we all do. It’s why Nike is Nike, it’s why Apple is Apple, it’s why Walt Disney built Disney World and it’s why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

It’s fun being a princess, but it’s not very practical! You’re trudging through the forest and the mud and all of the elements. You kind of think, ‘How did they do this back then?’ Thank God I can put on my Nike trainers and walk around the rest of the day!

I can’t say I have a lucky charm, but I do wear a 3/4-zip U.S.A. jacket I wear to every event. I got it from Nike, and it was from the 2012 Olympic Games.

Nike SF Air Force Ones are hands down my absolute favorite sneakers.

Beyonce was just always full-out. She’s like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: ‘Just Do It.’

Let’s start with the athlete, Nike’s original and most important collaborator. To us, everything starts with the insight. That’s why we work with the deepest roster of athletes, to gain the most profound understanding of what’s needed to perform.

I wanted to be a sneaker designer since I was 10; it was my dream to work at Nike and design signature shoes for Michael Jordan and Penny Hardaway. When it was time to select high schools, I wanted to go to one that would help me get a jump-start on my dream.

At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.

From Nike, we buy victory. From Under Armour, we buy protection. From Lululemon, we buy zen. From Patagonia, we buy conservation. From BMW, we buy performance.

Swish: A made basket. Swoosh: The Nike logo. Swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh: A thousand coaches in nylon tracksuits, walking through hotel lobbies at the Final Four.

Nike stands together against bigotry and any form of discrimination… Now, more than ever, let’s stand up for our values and remain open and inclusive as a brand and as a company.

My Nike Airs are always on my feet when I travel.

I am listening to a book by the guy who founded Nike, and I can relate to it. He struggled.

My Nike Free sneakers add a splash of color and slide on fast, perfect for when I’m 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!

We don’t tell a 17-year-old kid that Nike sucks, because the fact of the matter is, Nike doesn’t suck. They’re actually very good at what they do.

I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account.

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn’t matter, I pretty much need to have.

The Nike Fuel Band is interesting – it measures your movements and how far you’ve walked and how hard you’ve worked that day. I prefer using when I travel. It’s a fun way to see how far I’ve walked – how many steps I’ve taken when I’m walking around different cities.

The thing is I’m with Nike and I don’t want to wear any other player’s shoe. No Giannis or LeBron – I’m not going to wear those, and it narrows what you can wear. But with the Kobe’s, who cares because Kobe is Kobe. You can wear his shoe because it’s Kobe. They look great, the feel great and it represents something.

Obviously, the bulk of my Nike shares have been set up in a trust.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

My dad’s European, so when I was a little kid, I couldn’t wear things like Nike, so I grew up wearing Adidas.

I’ve used Nike clubs since I was 13.

I work in both very strict conditions and very loose, more open-minded conditions in advertising, and Nike is by far the most open-minded of all.

Nike believes in a world where everyone celebrates the power of diversity.

I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I’ve loved trainers since my youth – limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I’m a Nike man.

I give a lot of shoes away, but there are some shoes that sometimes I’m like, I don’t think they ever even released these. Sometimes, I don’t know what they’ve released. But sometimes, friends of mine that work for Nike will visit and say, ‘They never made these, so you need to hold on to these.’

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don’t win races. Athletes do.

I collect… for a long time, I collected Nike Air Max 90s, this specific shoe. And it really is nerdy, because collecting sneakers is not that nerdy, but if you don’t wear them, and you keep the box fresh, if you’re that fanatical about it, then you leap several categories into super-dork, and that’s the way I was.

Our brands – Nike, Converse, Jordan Brand and Hurley – are loved by customers all over the world. But we never take that for granted; we know that every day we have to earn their trust – by serving them completely and adding real value to their lives through products and experiences.

I joined the international stage quite late. I didn’t do many of the youth age groups, so to come into the senior team and to be offered a Nike deal – a very, very low Nike deal to start with – but I was jumping up to bite the woman’s hand off to sign the piece of paper.

You can make that money off the field that you’re missing on the field by doing endorsements with Sleep Number and Nike and Campbell’s Chunky Soup and all the other ones you see Dak doing.

No one works harder at inspiring athletes all over the world than our team at Nike. Creating those experiences requires an amazing amount of energy, a steady flow of big ideas to excite and surprise people, and a constant dialogue that connects us on a personal level.

I kind of got popular as a spoken word artist, and I ended up doing some ads and audio stuff for Nike and Sprite.

When Nike says, just do it, that’s a message of empowerment. Why aren’t the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?