Bill Bowerman
Bill Bowerman
William Jay "Bill" Bowermanwas an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers. During his 24 years as coach at the University of Oregon, the Ducks track and field team had a winning season every season but one, attained 4 NCAA titles, and finished in the top 10 in the nation 16 times...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 February 1911
CityPortland, OR
CountryUnited States of America
Bill Bowerman quotes about
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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.
The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.