Bill Bowerman Quotes

“Everything you need is already inside.”

“Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.”

“The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.”

“It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.”

“If you have a body, you are an athlete!”

“If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.”

“There is no bad weather, just soft runners.”

“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.”

“The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.”