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I 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 Bonner

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.
BILL BONNER

Forever Learning Wisdom
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.’
BILL BONNER

Athlete Giving Running
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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Forget Impossibility Recovery
People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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Deserve People Want
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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Banker Blowing Brains Hang Head Secretaries
There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Runners Running Weather
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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Adversity Men Running Themselves
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Smart Teacher Teaching
There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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Funny Motivational Nike
If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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Done End Race Winner
God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Helping Mechanic Running
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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Giving Guy Trying
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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Behaviour Change Number Original World
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.
BILL BONNER

Fitness Motivational Running
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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People Real Scapegoats Upset
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.
BILL BONNER

Running Sports Thinking

I 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.

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I 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.

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