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Top 15 Bill Bowerman Quotes (2025 Update)

Bill Bowerman Quote: “Everything you need is already inside.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “It’s easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “If you have a body, you are an athlete!”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “There is no bad weather, just soft runners.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “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 Bowerman Quote: “The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “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 Bowerman Quote: “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 Bowerman Quote: “God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you’ve always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.”
Bill Bowerman Quote: “Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.”
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