Quotes by Kevin Plank - Page 2

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Airplane
Healthy
Needs
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At Under Armour, we've created a very strong culture, a culture that first and foremost is built on people.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Armour
Foremost
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You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Throat
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The ability to touch people and literally change lives is incredibly relevant in a consumer-products company.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Relevant
Touch People
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I can't imagine trying to operate a company banking on the fact that my logo is cooler than somebody else's logo.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Banking
Cooler
Operate
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I wake up in the morning and I think about one brand. I don't have enough time to wake up twice and think about two.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Morning
Enough Time
Thinking
Two
Wake Up
Twice
Wake
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Stop with the stupid messages. I don't need a message that says, 'Go on, you can do it today.' What does that mean?!
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Messages
You Can Do It
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The best merchants in the world aren't the ones predicting what's cool next; we're the ones dictating what's cool next.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Merchants
Predicting
Cool Best World
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The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Health Care
Sick
Health World Care
Wait
Systems
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The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Sports
Apparel
Shoes
Void
Dominated
Fill
Shoe
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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.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Armour
Great Idea
Business Great Know
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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.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Fitness
Armour
Land
People
Thinking
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I don't believe in flagship retail, because the definition of flagship retail is that it's a marketing expense, and it's going to lose money.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Marketing
Retail
Definition
Expense
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As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Running
Armour
Shoes
Work Out
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Success doesn't happen quickly. It happens from doing the same thing over and over, becoming great at it, and delivering great value to consumers.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Great
Becoming
Consumers
Delivering
Great Value
Thing
Doing
Same
Happen
Over
Quickly
Same Thing
Value
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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.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Nike
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When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Bigs
Done
Want
Done Me Know
Consumer
Me Done See
Lately
Shout
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I wanted to make the world's greatest football undershirt. But I realized that no team sport had equipment for apparel. Apparel was an afterthought.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Afterthought
Apparel
Equipment
Team Sport
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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.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Day Care Every Day
Visit
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There is some little boy and some little girl out there, somewhere, who believe that when they put Under Armour on, they can do just a little bit more.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Armour
Just A Little Bit
Little Girl
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The Small Business Administration was fundamental in helping our company. There's great initiative from the government if you know the right places to look.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Administration
Helping
Initiative
Small Business
Fundamental
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I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don't know it all and that they're dying to learn.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Curiosity
Dying
Intellectual
Intellectual Curiosity
Believe People Know
Learn
Themselves
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Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Inspirational
Brands
Ideas
Theory
Yourself
Sure
Brand
Carry
Idea
How
Item
Meaning
Product
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I don't have the option of getting fat. I like to try as much of our products as I can. Our sample size is size large, and I can't fit into our samples unless I'm at that size.
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Sample
Size
Fat
Option
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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.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Armour
Everyone Else
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One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Firsts
Want
Way
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I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Concerts
Control Freak
Freak
Hammered
Making Money
Good Money I Am
Organizing
Pretty Good
Realized
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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!
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Credibility
Time Famous Long
Perfecting
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There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Business
Garage
Take A Chance
Years
Time Good Chance
Time Business Good
Good Time
Start
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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.
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Dollars
Trunk
Millions Of Dollars
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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.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Monopoly
Love Better Know
Avenue
Baltic
Board
Gardens
Rent
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It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Enjoyed
Fire
Passion
People
Innovate
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Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the winter. Why not make a better piece of equipment for underneath the shoulder pads?
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Armour
Choices
Cotton
Equipment
Pads
Summer
Why Not
Winter
Piece
Shoulder
Underneath
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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.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Football
Football Player
If I Could
Little Bit
Sweat
Weight
Behind
Edge
Figured
Importantly
Stood
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At some point in your life, you'll find yourself in a similar position: Surrounded by people who are smarter, faster, who have more experience and more money - and you'll just have to find a way. And you'll have to do it with passion.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Faster
Passion
Position
Smarter
Life Experience Money
Similar
Surrounded
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I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.
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Business School
Guy
Projects
School
Team
General
Meant
Particularly
Gave
Business Good School
Major
Smith
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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.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Running
Beer
Horse
Mark
Truck
Love Me Never
Heading
Park
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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.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Convincing
Lingerie
Touched
Essentially
Football Players
Trick
Jedi
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Go find out if you can make your product. Once you make it, stop projecting what's going to happen and go find out whether your product can sell. Find out whether someone is willing to take hard-earned cash out of their pocket and exchange it for your product.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Cash
Exchange
Pocket
Projecting
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My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.
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Kids
Bucks
Cotton
Dumb
Guy
Real
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Selling
Stones
Concert
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Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Chance
Behalf
Burning
Decent
Decent Man
Guy
Maryland
Randy
Strong
University
Good Man People
Against
Good Chance Man
Days
Working
Off
Him
Spend
Least
More People
Rooting
Tail
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There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.
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Opportunity
Success
Business
Inspiration
Mean
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People of Baltimore, if you want to simply learn a new trade, if you want to join the Foundry, it's a membership. It's like joining a gym, and you can go and meet other entrepreneurs like you. You can talk about how to get financing. You can take a class on how to sew. You can take a class and say, 'I want to be an electrician.'
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Electrician
Financing
Gym
Membership
People New Talk
Entrepreneurs
Join
Sew
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Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day.
Kevin Plank / American Football Player
Jobs
Boots
Stories
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