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.
STEVE PREFONTAINENo one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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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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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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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.
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A race is a work of art.
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Running gives me confidence.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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What I want is to be number one.
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Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
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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.
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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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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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I don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
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I can endure more pain then anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.
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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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