The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
BILL BONNERIf 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.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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Once 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.
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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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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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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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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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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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