Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight

Top 10 Best Quotes

“I’d tell men and women in their midtwenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you don’t know what that means, seek it. If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt.”

“When you see only problems, you’re not seeing clearly.”

“Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other people’s victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete.”

“Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.”

“I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.”

“The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was 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.”

“He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to-equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.”

“No matter the sport-no matter the human endeavor, really-total effort will win people's hearts”

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

“He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend.”

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