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 BONNERThe athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don’t apologize for it. They don’t hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they’re proud of it… announcing that they ‘saved civilization,’ or some such claptrap.
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Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings…pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives.
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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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Everything you need is already inside.
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That 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.
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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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The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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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 magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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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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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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The 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.
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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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