Bill Bowerman Quotes

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
• A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting…
• Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
• If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The…
• I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
• God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
• Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially…
• I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to…
• There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
• The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.
• If you have a body, you are an athlete!
• Everything you need is already inside.
• It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
• This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776…
• Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be…
• Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.
• The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or…
• Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
• The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.
• To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

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