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Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.

Steve Prefontaine

Every once in a while I think, ‘What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?’
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Easy Fun Myself Run Thinking
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Art Beautiful Creation Music Myself People Run Word
The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn’t running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven’t forgotten about me.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Field Forget Ideas Lose Myself People Run
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Move Run Support Yourself
If he’s having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters, nobody except me.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Goodness Myself Race Right Run Sports
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

End Fast Myself Pain People Punishment Race Run
You have to wonder at times what you’re doing out there. Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Motivational Run Satisfaction Success Time Wonderful Yourself
I like to make something beautiful when I run … it’s style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Beautiful Better Creative Myself Run Style
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Blood Inspirational Motivational Tough Yourself
I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

End Myself Pure Race Work
My philosophy is that I’m an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Art Artist Body Book Camera Myself Performance Philosophy See
I run to see who has the most guts.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

One Liner Run See
Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Difficult Faith Motivational Run True Try World Yourself
Nobody likes tainted victories.
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One Liner Victory Win
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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Failure One Liner Preparation Yourself
Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Children Confidence Fun Learning Myself Run Slow

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