Bill Bowerman Quotes

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

Bill Bowerman

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Day
  • Happen
  • Late

• As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Job
  • Integrity
  • Protect

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Television
  • Box
  • Had

• 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.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guy

• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Church

• Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Long
  • Years
  • Ice

• I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Thoughts
  • Inspiration

• To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • England
  • Outsider

• The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Health
  • Care
  • Physician

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Issues

• I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Day
  • Couple

• I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Judge

• In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Grow

• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Music
  • Style
  • Planning

• I think women go crazy for a reason. It's not like it just happens.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Women
  • Crazy

• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Power
  • Free
  • Individual

• The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Support

• If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I can't do it. If I want to go skinny dipping and wash my body, I can take my clothes off.

  

  Burt Shavitz
  • Dog

• I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Place
  • Being

• If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • Done
  • Knows
  • Race