Bill Bowerman

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

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

“I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But the same effort goes into coaching them. It's the human-making I'm after.”

“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.”