The 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 BONNERVictory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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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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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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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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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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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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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