What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
STEVE PREFONTAINERunning gives me confidence.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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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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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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I run to see who has the most guts.
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What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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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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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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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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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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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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What I want is to be number one.
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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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I don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
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