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.

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'

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

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.

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