Romaine Bostick

Was that from you or was that from Phil McCartney?

Where did that come from?

And that translates to the consumer, the consumer likes that?

You spend a lot of time meeting with your athletes, meeting with your designers as well.

You also have to spend, as a CEO of a public company, a lot of time meeting with investors.

Have they bought into it yet?

When I talk to analysts on Wall Street, they're relatively complimentary of what you've done, but they are still concerned about sales growth, which is still relatively flat.

They're concerned about profitability, which to a certain extent is not quite there, at least not to their liking.

When do you get there?

When do you get there to a sustainable growth rate on revenue and more importantly, generating more profits and wider margins?

So running North America was up more than 20%.

Overall, North America was up 9% across the board.

I want to talk about the wholesale, though.

In North America, that did great.

I think it was roughly about 20% as well.

But there's been some criticism that maybe the sell-in

that you've done is maybe too heavy into North America and not necessarily broad based across the globe.

Is that relationship better with them?

I mean, Nike gravitated away from those retail partners to a certain extent back in the early 2020s.

I know they kind of tried to reset under Donahoe before you then came in.