Bill Bowerman Quotes
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believed I was invincible.
-
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
-
How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
-
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
-
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-
You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
-
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
-
I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
-
I don't really yell at people.
-
If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
-
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
-
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
-
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
-
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
-
I played cello in my high school orchestra.
-
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
-
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
-
One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
-
People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.
-
One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.
-
Don't be scared to embrace the way that it hurts just to grow. You'll look back and your heart will thank you for not standing still when what you needed the most was to move forward.
-
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.
