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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.

Steve Prefontaine

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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Easy Fun Myself Run Thinking
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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Endurance Myself Pain Tolerance Win
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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End Myself Pure Race Work
I don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
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Excitement Myself People Run
What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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Crazy Kind Mad Run Time
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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Beautiful Better Creative Myself Run Style
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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Motivational Run Satisfaction Success Time Wonderful Yourself
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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Art Beautiful Creation Music Myself People Run Word
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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Field Forget Ideas Lose Myself People Run
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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End Fast Myself Pain People Punishment Race Run
Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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Distance Run Start Success Travel Yourself
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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Afraid Give Up Goodness Greatness Inspirational
Nobody likes tainted victories.
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One Liner Victory Win
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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Competition International Man Myself Run
Running gives me confidence.
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Confidence Myself Run Sports
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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