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Bill Bowerman Biography

William Jay "Bill" Bowerman (February 19, 1911 – December 24, 1999) was 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. As co-founder of Nike, he invented some of their top brands, including the Cortez and Waffle Racer, and assisted in the company moving from being a distributor of other shoe brands to one creating their own shoes in house.

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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.

Garbage, Greatest, Harder, Ideas, Intelligently, Men

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

Funny, Motivational, Nike, People, Soft, Thing

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.

Events, Past, Running, Say, Stay, Team

There is no bad weather, just soft runners.

Runners, Running, Soft, Weather

Everything you need is already inside.

Already, Everything, Gym Motivational, Running, Sports

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

Athlete, Body, Motivational

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

Ask, Asks, Easier, Forgiveness, Permission

Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.

Away, Giving, Guy, Guys, Make, Trying

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

Athlete, Coach, Coaches, Make

If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?. . . . The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

Fitness, Magic, Motivational, Ran, Running, Week

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

Learn, Pupils, Smart, Teacher, Teaching

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

Competitor, Competitors, Everyone, Explore, Faces, Limits

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.

Age, Handle, Running, Sport, Sports, Thinking

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

Call, Hockey, Record, Runners, Running, Sports