PRE. For your dedication and loyalty to your principles and beliefs. For your love,warmth and friendship. For your family and friends. You are missed by so many and you will never be forgotten.
STEVE PREFONTAINETo give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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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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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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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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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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A race is a work of art.
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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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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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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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