The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
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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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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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.
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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.
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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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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
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Everything you need is already inside.
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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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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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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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People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don’t know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won’t sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats – the rich…the banks…the Chinese.
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