
“Keeping vivid both the story of Pre and the truths Bowman held to be vital-namely, that we are all physical entities, that we all have the ability to get better, but to do that we have to accept our limits at any given moment and work within them. Great coaches are great because they see and help transcend those limits. If that is not an immortal message, it should be.”
― Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder
― Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder

“We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“When he talked with us about goals and hopes, he asked us, though never in so many words, to balance the hunger that is in all runners with some grasp of what our predecessors had achieved. The thing was not to blindly disregard limits but to understand the odds, even as one refused to accept them. He asked us, then, to leave open a tiny window of possibility. "If you go out to race," he said, "and know you'll lose, there's no probability involved. You'll lose. But if you go out knowing you will never give up, you'll still lose most of the time, but you'll be in the best position to kick from on that rare day when everything breaks right.”
― Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder
― Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder

“I was born for you," I simply said, and held out my arms to him.”
― Outlander
― Outlander

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