Shoe Dog Quotes

“It was my first real awareness that not 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.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition

“I was following a path that felt like my path, and though I wasn’t sure where it would lead, I was ready to find out.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“آسان ترین راه برای این که بفهمی چه احساسی به یک نفر داری خداحافظی کردن است”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition

“I was close to tears. But I held it together, channeled all my emotion into my run, and posted one of my best times of the year. As I walked off the track I glowered at Bowerman. Happy now? He looked at me, checked his stopwatch, looked at me again, nodded. He’d tested me. He’d broken me down and remade me, just like a pair of shoes. And I’d held up. Thereafter, I was truly one of his Men of Oregon. From that day on, I was a tiger.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“The single easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say good-bye.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Of course I wanted to taste other foods, hear other languages, dive into other cultures, but what I really craved was “connection” with a capital “C.” I wanted to experience what the Chinese call Tao, the Greeks call Logos, the Hindus call Jñāna, the Buddhists call Dharma. What the Christians call Spirit.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“mirage,”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition

“Wisdom seemed an intangible asset,”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Above all, that war, more than other wars, seemed to be run along the same principles as my bank. Fight not to win, but to avoid losing. A surefire losing strategy.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“So why was selling shoes so different? Because, I realized, it wasn’t selling. I believed in running. I believed that if people got out and ran a few miles every day, the world would be a better place, and I believed these shoes were better to run in. People, sensing my belief, wanted some of that belief for themselves.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“On my right was the Temple of Athena Nike. Twenty-five centuries ago, per my guidebook, it had housed a beautiful frieze of the goddess Athena, thought to be the bringer of “nike,” or victory.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Don’t go to sleep one night, wrote Rūmī, the thirteenth-century Persian poet. What you most want will come to you then. Warmed by a sun inside you’ll see wonders.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“I’d read that “tycoon” came from taikun, Japanese for “warlord.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Every few seconds, CLING-clong, CLING-clong, a cobbler’s concerto.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Japanese literature, philosophy, clothing, domestic life, all were marvelously pure and spare. Minimalist. Expect nothing, seek nothing, grasp nothing—the immortal Japanese poets wrote lines that seemed polished and polished until they gleamed like the blade of a samurai’s sword, or the stones of a mountain brook.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path yourself, said the Buddha,”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Too rich for my blood.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition