Zitat des Tages von Kevin Plank:
Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.
I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.
Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.
You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.
Data is the new oil.
We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.
People say they'll pay more for something made in the U.S., but they won't actually do it.
Everybody is an expert. But at Under Armour, I want people to control what they can control. Leave the pontificating to everyone else. Leave all that negative talk to everyone else.
If Facebook owns social, if LinkedIn owns business, who owns your health?
If you're going to start a company, it's not going to be in the millions of dollars, but it's going to be something - for a lot of these kids - out of the trunk of their car, the same way that I did.
We don't care which products you like, but you should be using UnderArmour.com - which is now MapMyFitness - and having a reason to visit us every day.
We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.
Every great brand is like a great story.
All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land.
I want Baltimore to be the coolest city in the world.
I love Monopoly. You know why? When I play Monopoly with you, I'm going to buy everything from Baltic Avenue to Marvin Gardens. If you get to my side of the board, you'd better roll boxcars, or you're going to pay rent.
My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.
Winning, I believe, is a culture just as much as losing is.
I didn't like the way a wet cotton T-shirt felt under my equipment. There had to be something better.
The best merchants in the world aren't the ones predicting what's cool next; we're the ones dictating what's cool next.
I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.
People like being on winning teams.
We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.
The idea of insider information to me is almost, like, laughable.
I'm a sporting goods guy.
My kids have been watching a lot of 'My Little Pony,' and it's rubbing off on me.
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.
Stop with the stupid messages. I don't need a message that says, 'Go on, you can do it today.' What does that mean?!
I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.
When you're winning, you're creating a dynasty.
You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.
In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea. But it's also about who you know.
It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting!
Passion means finding a way.
San Francisco is one of the worst-dressed cities in the world, bar none.
Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.