36 Quotes by Bill Bowerman

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

Everything you need is already inside.

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

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.

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

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.

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.