Phil Knight

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.

Phil Knight

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

Phil Knight

Life is growth, business is growth. You grow or you die.

Phil Knight

Make history or be a part of it.

Phil Knight

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

Phil Knight

I had an aching sense that our time is short, shorter than we ever know, shorter as a morning run, and I wanted mine to be meaningful. And purposeful. And creative. And important. Above all… different.

Phil Knight

Let everyone else call your idea crazy… just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where ‘there’ is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.

Phil Knight

Like it or not, life is a game. Whoever denies that truth, whoever simply refuses to play, gets left on the sidelines, and I didn’t want that.

Phil Knight

The art of competing, I’d learned from track, is the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.

Phil Knight

You tell yourself that you’re running toward some goal, chasing some rush, but really you run because the alternative, stopping, scares you to death.

Phil Knight