I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
BILL BONNERGod determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don’t know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won’t sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats – the rich…the banks…the Chinese.
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies… and often dangerous ones.
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A man’s wealth can…also be measured by what he doesn’t have and doesn’t want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.
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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.
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The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need — we’re done for.
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You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
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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 right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? ‘Don’t overcoach.’
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
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