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I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'

Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys.

I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.

There are not a lot of athletes that are going to get their own shoe.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

Women have this obsession with shoes.

I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women.

I was surrounded by women and all I would hear is of them complaining about their shoes. Back then, 'comfort' was a dirty word in fashion footwear. This was before fur loafers or sneakers. So, I wanted to create a shoe that was like slipping your foot into a glove - something beautiful, feminine, and sexy at the same time.

I've always been a Nike person.

Women like my shoes because they look good on them, not because they look good on the rack.