Other than my parents, my college coach, Bill Bowerman, was the biggest influence in my life.

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Think of John Wooden in college basketball, Doc Councilman in swimming, Bill Bowerman in distance running, Bill Walsh in professional football.

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The story of how Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman developed a running shoe sole from a waffle maker has become a minor legend.

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Blue Ribbon Sports, a company founded by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight in 1964, eventually turned into Nike, Inc. ( NYSE: NKE) in 1978.

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Bill Bowerman and Joe Paterno shared some great qualities.

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The coach, Bill Bowerman, is a track and field legend in his own right (the shoes we see him painstakingly making for his runners throughout the movie were the beginnings of a little company he founded called Nike).

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Other photographs courtesy of Bill Ray, Anne Bowerman, Polaroid, Marie Cosindas, Nan Lane Rudolph, Chuck Close and the Pace Gallery, Mark Sink, Ted Voss, Danny Kim, Bonnier Corporation, David Levinthal, Patrick Nagatani and the WestLicht Collection, Jamie Livingston, Christopher Bonanos, Bradley Laurent and The Impossible Project, Danny Kim and John Reuter.

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