Phil Knight

In college I’d read the analects of Confucius—The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

runners always work the hardest, and risk the most.

everyone in this world will like us, or accept us, that we’re often cast aside at the very moment we most need to be included.

don’t take any wooden nickels.”

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path yourself

Romans in the age of the Caesars believed that putting on the right shoe before the left brought prosperity and good luck

Why is it always so hard to get started?

“The cowards never started,”

exactly what I wanted my life to be. Play.

it or not, life is a game. Whoever denies that truth, whoever simply refuses to play, gets left on the sidelines