Herbert Hainer Quotations

With these measures, we will create a structure that is geared to the changed conditions within our business, allowing short reaction timelines and improving overall efficiency,

Many of our current efforts will now focus on turning around the Reebok brand.

Our key region North America is stronger than ever, so that we have raised our group sales and earnings expectations for the year,

Our mission is to be the leading sports brand in the world. This definitely brings us a huge step ahead,

While Paul has chosen to step down as CEO of Reebok, I am very pleased that he has agreed to remain a personal adviser and consultant to me. Paul's experience is invaluable to the organization at this time, and I look forward to continuing to work closely together.

We would definitely like to see this as the start of a new tradition for the final match. We'll do this again but try to come up with something special for each final.

We knew full well that an acquisition of this size would take a lot of work, and that Reebok had some particular challenges ahead of it.

We expect further improvements throughout the year, especially in the second half, when initial results of our new strategies will become visible,

Asia is the biggest growth market for us, especially China, but also Japan.

The countdown for the soccer World Cup has already started, and we are on track to achieve extraordinary results in 2006 and later,

In the long term, this new 11-year partnership has the power to make the NBA and Adidas synonymous in basketball.

Clearly there are challenges that Reebok will solve but these were not unknown when we made our offer in August and we remain fully confident in the synergies,

But I'm not disappointed about the results (in Europe) for the first nine months, and you will see positive revenue growth here in the fourth quarter,

By combining two of the most respected and well-known brands in the worldwide sporting goods industry, the new group will benefit from a more competitive platform.

One of the purposes of the Olympic Games is to bring the nations of the world closer together, so that they can conduct an open dialogue. We [germans] should be careful about constantly imposing our values on others.

The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.

If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.

My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea. It is a commitment to sport.

If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.

Fans today don't only care about achievement, but about good looks, good public appearance and good lifestyle.

It never feels good if you don't reach all of your goals, neither in sport, nor in business nor in your personal life. But the key thing is to never give up, we have taken our learnings from 2014 and developed an exciting and promising strategy for the period up until 2020.

I do believe they went a little bit too far on the music side. They have a lot of extremely good performance products, and this we'll definitely communicate much stronger in the future.