Kelsi Bridgeman

“Unworthy boys make a lot of noise”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“All of a sudden people were asking, "Where were these guy coming from?" As the world would soon learn, Bowman hasn't developed a solitary prodigy. He was shaping a succession of them.”
― Kenny Moore, 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.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“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.”
― Kenny Moore, Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder