I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

I wake up in the morning and I think about one brand. I don't have enough time to wake up twice and think about two.

Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!