Phil Knight Quotes

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

A good director is like a good coach. You want to play for him. You want to really show him your good stuff. You don't want to let that person down. Ridley Scott is one of those guys.

Whenever I am called upon to play, I always try to give my best and make sure that I can impose myself on the game.

Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.

Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.

I want to train with whoever is the best.

Rob has been one of my biggest motivators. I constantly see the work he takes on, both on the field and off. He's definitely someone I admire.

Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence.

Football's about winning and I'm a winner, but you also have to set standards and entertain people.

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

Being the player who wants to impact every game is what I've always tried to be.

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best.

I enjoyed my 15 years at the top, and now I enjoy watching the current crop. What I did, maybe they can't do, and what they do, perhaps I couldn't do. It's like that. I wanted to simply be the best. On a professional level, I wanted to be No. 1, and I worked hard to be that.

I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying to win games for the Giants.

John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor.

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.

You look at the quality players and look at the leadership we had, and it's easy to understand why we won.

I've just got to be the best player that I can be and worry about what I've got to do to help out the team, and be the best team out there we can be, and the best player I can be out there on the field to help out the team.

This is a business, and no one enters a race not to finish first. I wouldn't say I'm in it for the competition, but I'm certainly not just in it to coast along. I want to be the best I possibly can be.