If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
BILL BONNERIf you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
BILL BONNEROnly 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.
BILL BONNERSeveral 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.’
BILL BONNEROnce vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself.
BILL BONNERI 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.
BILL BONNERDon’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
BILL BONNERGod determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
BILL BONNERThe US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
BILL BONNERThe 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 woman who works most intelligently.
BILL BONNERIf you have a body, you are an athlete!
BILL BONNERNone 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.
BILL BONNERThe world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person’s situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
BILL BONNERVictory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
BILL BONNERThat is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
BILL BONNEREverything you need is already inside.
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.
BILL BONNER