No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.

There’s more to me than just this jersey I wear, and that’s Christ living inside of me.

I’m not the guy who’s afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles.

You obviously have your routines that you rely on, then you go out and play and have fun. For us in basketball, we have a seven-game series, so you have time to adjust if you need to. It’s a fun experience to go through, and one that I’ll remember for a long time.

Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life… whether it’s sports, whether it’s in other fields, you have to realise that there’s always work to do.

I learned how quickly I actually released my shot off the dribble. I know that’s something I work on, and really use in games, but I didn’t know exactly how quick it was, down to like the millisecond.

All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.

It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.’ It’s also my mantra, how I get up for games and why I play the way I do.

On the court, I’m not afraid of anything. I try to have confidence and have a belief in myself.

Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story.

The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.

Doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have… All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.

I prepare to the point where instinct take over.

We want to get another one.

What goes through my head when I’m going to take a game-winning shot is … I better make it. Don’t be afraid of the moment.

I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it’s been a great ride and I’m not done yet.

I can’t say enough, how important my faith is to how I play the game and who I am.

You don’t have to live anybody else’s story.

I have much less confidence on the greens than I do on the court. Everybody asks like if putting is like shooting free throws. Like that six-footer for par or something like that. It has a very similar kind of mindset.

Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I’m going to make it.

Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

In a game, there are so many different variables that are thrown at you – the defense, where your teammates are, how fast your body’s moving, and you have to be in control of all those decisions.

I’d rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who’s sitting at home in May.

The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.

Basketball isn’t just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

The funny part is I feel like somebody is stalking me, like, at my local course and sizing up my game.

There’s more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.

In my terms, “neurocognitive efficiency” is being able to make smarter, faster decisions on the floor.

If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.

It’s all about winning. Stats really don’t matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it’s all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.

If I make a double bogey, the fans on whatever hole better watch out; I might throw it. I might throw it at them.

I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that’s something no earthly prize or trophy could ever top.

I can get better. I haven’t reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.

Yesterday was the first time I saw Kevin Durant in a Warrior T-shirt. I like did a double-take; it was the weirdest thing ever, because it’s still kind of fresh.

Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don’t go your way at work – for me that might mean I lose a game or not play well – but that doesn’t affect my mood from day to day. I love going home and seeing the smiles on my daughters’ faces being happy to see me, and that makes everything all right.

Have a day off, which is very rare in our line of work, but that’s something we like to do. Like I said, it’s a nice way to take your mind off the game and just go out and relax and have fun.

It’s a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don’t want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.

Think very carefully about what you want in life. Reckon with the risks.

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.

Every step of the way I think you learn something that makes you a better player, and all those lessons really come out when it matters the most in a championship.

If you take time to realize what your dream is and what you really want in life, no matter what it is, whether it’s sports or in other fields, you have to realize that there is always work to do, and you want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do, and you put yourself in a position to be successful. And you have to have a passion about what you do.

I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross.

I’m a golf junkie, but I’m a sports fan. I’ll watch pretty much everything that’s on.

I’ve never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I’m ready for the moment.

Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in.

I do a little sign on the court every time i make a shot or a good pass and i pound my chest and point to the sky – it symbolizes that i have a heart for God. It’s something that my mom and I came up with in college and I do it every time I step on the floor as a reminder of who i’m playing for.

We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.

Leo!” jason was shaking his shoulder. “hey, man, why are you hugging nike?”
leo’s eyes fluttered open. His arms were wrapped around the human-sized statue in athena’s hand. He must have been thrashing in his sleep. He clung to the victory goddess like he used to cling to his pillow when he had nightmares as a kid. (man, that had been so embarrassing in the foster homes.)
he disentangled himself and sat up, rubbing his face.
“nothing,” he muttered. “we were just cuddling.

When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There’s no ‘dial 9-1-1’ for design.

Look, lady, we’re not going to go all hunger games on each other. Isn’t going to happen.

We make decisions every day about what we’re going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes – two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do.

Strike fear or get struck.

Leo smiled nervously. Maybe he and percy did share something else – a stupid sense of humour.
‘yeah, I bet that would totally be against her sponsorship deal. Those are not the official shoes of the olympics! you will die now!’
hazel rolled her eyes. ‘you’re both impossible.’
behind leo, a thunderous voice shook the ruins: ‘you will die now!.

If you have market power like Nike, you can set terms that are much tougher because athletes value the endorsement of Nike – it means as much to them as it does to the company.

50,000 workers at the yue yen nike factory in china would have to work for nineteen years to earn what nike spends on advertising in one year. Wal-mart’s annual sales are worth 120 times more than haiti’s entire annual budget; disney ceo michael eisner earns $9,783 an hour while a haitian worker earns 28 cents an hour; it would take a haitian worker 16.8 years to earn eisner’s hourly income; the $181 million in stock options eisner exercised in 1996 is enough to take care of his 19,000 haitian workers and their families for fourteen years.

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.

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.

When you see your feet with no footwear, also see those with no feet.

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

Nézze, győzelem néni… – szólt közbe kényszeredett mosollyal percy. – nem akarjuk megzavarni a tombolásban. Beszélje meg a dolgot magamagával, mi addig elugrunk nagyobb fegyverekért meg egy kis nyugtatóért.

I’ve been a Nike athlete since day one.

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.

I’m sponsored by Nike and stuff.

Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What’s now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don’t.

Nike Air Zooms are what I usually run in. In the kitchen, I wear a beaten-up pair of Converse All-Stars in winter and Keds in summer.

Just do it! well, later!.

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.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‘Marathon’ or ‘All Money’ or ‘Crenshaw’ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

Part of an icon’s power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald’s, and the little red tab means Levi’s, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.

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.

I’ve always loved Nike shoes, and I’m in a position where I like to collect them now, especially the limited-edition Jordan and Air Max pairs. My house is full of special releases.

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

Just do it.

He (leo) forced his fists to unclench. “look, lady, we’re not going all hunger games on each other. Isn’t going to happen.” “but you will win a fabulous honor!” nike reached into a basket at her side and produced a wreath of thick leaves and laurels. “this crown of leaves could be yours! you can wear it on your head! think of the glory!.

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.

There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

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

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.

Nike doesn’t want to make products for everyone – they want to make products for champions.

Storytelling is the game. It’s what we all do.

Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.

Mi lenne, ha nyomnánk egy kis adidas-reklámot? – kérdezte percy. – szerintetek niké bepörögne tőle és előjönne?
leo idegesen mosolygott. Talán mégis van valami közös benne és percyben: a fárasztó humor.

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.

With every sunrise, we get to choose … Who we are, what we believe, and how we will live the life the gods have given us. We can’t always choose our circumstances. No. The fates do that. But we can always choose who we will be and how we will be within them.

She doesn’t even know how to kill things properlike? What kind of girl have you given me to, goddess?” Vic protested, fixing his eye on Nike once more. Nike let out a laugh. ” Vic is a little bloodthirsty. You’ll get used to it.

For some, I realize, business is the all-out pursuit of profits, period, full stop, but for us business was no more about making money than being human is about making blood.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

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.

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.

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.’

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

To be able to represent Nike as a brand is one thing, but to also represent the great players that came before me means a lot.

IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn’t been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we’ll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.

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.

Just do it,” she prompted him. Then she rolled her eyes. ”god, you’ve turned me intro a nike commercial.”
― , prisoner of night.

The only one who can tell you “You can’t” is you. And you don’t have to listen.-Nike

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?

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.

Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that nothing is too late. If you will start it now, you are never too old to do it! don’t wait for another year older for you to learn something new. Just do it. (you listen to nike!).

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.

Percy muttered. ‘i want to drown her.’
‘be patient, water boy.’
‘don’t call me water boy.

Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded. You see the brands – Nike, Puma, Coke – all over their bodies. Pretty soon you’ll go to a family and say, “$100,000 if we can tattoo Pepsi on your child’s forehead, and we’ll have it removed when he’s twenty-one. A hundred grand.

Nike store won’t accept my Starbucks card as payment. Come on guys, just do it.

I know when the Berlin wall went down and I walked into what was East Berlin and saw two big Nike banners – that gave me a chill.

I always wear a pair of colored jeans and fun boots. I have a really cute pair of stars-and-stripes Converse, and I love wearing all my bright Nike shoes.

Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Nike came to me and said, ‘We’re interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.’

The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream.
“leo!” jason was shaking his shoulder. “hey, man, why are you hugging nike?”
leo’s eyes fluttered open. His arms were wrapped around the human-sized statue in athena’s hand. He must have been thrashing in his sleep. He clung to the victory goddess like he used to cling to his pillow when he had nightmares as a kid. (man, that had been so embarrassing in the foster homes.)
he disentangled himself and sat up, rubbing his face.
“nothing,” he muttered. “we were just cuddling. Um, what’s going on?.

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’ve always been a Nike person.

Ah swear, ah will croak if she asks me for a pair of Nikes instead of Christian Louboutins!