A.N. Knight Quotes

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.

I ain't never preyed on the weak. I ain't never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I'm [that] type of guy.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

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 gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I'm on my way.

It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

It is possible to tell a customer "no", and have the customer thank you for doing it

Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.

Al McGuire talked to me I don't know how many times about dealing with the press: "You've got to be a con man." I tried that for a day or so, but it never really worked for me.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.

The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.

Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising.

I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.

You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation