Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
STEVE PREFONTAINEDon’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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.
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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. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.
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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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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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A race is a work of art.
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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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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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What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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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 can endure more pain then anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.
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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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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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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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What I want is to be number one.
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