If you have a body, you are an athlete!
BILL BONNERThe 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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So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
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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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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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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 study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that’s an important form of sport and recreation, too.
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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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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
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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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Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.
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