Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
BILL BONNERI still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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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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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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I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
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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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None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.
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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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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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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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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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I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.
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