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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Steve Prefontaine

No matter how hard you train, Somebody will train harder. No matter how hard you run, Somebody will run harder. No matter how hard you want it, Somebody will want it more, I am Somebody.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Competition Hard Work Inspirational Motivational Myself Training
As far as being a coach, it’s always fascinated me. It’s a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you’re dealing with people.
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Deal Greatness Leadership People Responsibility Yourself
I’ve been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don’t go out and just run. There’s an offense and a defense.
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Competition International Man Myself Run
Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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Distance Run Start Success Travel Yourself
What I want is to be number one.
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Best Goal Inspirational Motivational Myself One Liner
What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Run
You said I was weak. You said I couldn’t do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong.
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Inspirational Myself Need Thankful Weakness Wrong Yourself
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.
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Field Forget Ideas Lose Myself People 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.
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Motivational Run Satisfaction Success Time Wonderful Yourself
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?’
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Easy Fun Myself Run Thinking
If he’s having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters, nobody except me.
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Goodness Myself Race Right Run Sports
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.
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Children Confidence Fun Learning Myself Run Slow
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.
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Art People Race Understand Way Work
I like to make something beautiful when I run … it’s style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.
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Beautiful Better Creative Myself Run Style
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.
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End Myself Pure Race Work
I run to see who has the most guts.
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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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