Running gives me confidence.
STEVE PREFONTAINEDon’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.
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Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run.
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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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I run to see who has the most guts.
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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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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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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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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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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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What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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