Bill Bowerman

“I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times, but they can fulfill their own potential.”

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

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

“The coach is the teacher.”

“A teacher is a person who can put themselves in the place of those who find learning hard.”

“One of the things you do as a coach is you do whatever you can to help your 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 real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.”

“Everything you need is already inside.”

“Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. I am the coach... but I will not coach you. For the coaching is in the doing.”

“There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”