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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

Steve Prefontaine

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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Field Forget Ideas Lose Myself People Run
Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Myself Voice Wait
Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Coward Fear One Liner Tired Yourself
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Motivational Run Satisfaction Success Time Wonderful Yourself
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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Art Artist Body Book Camera Myself Performance Philosophy See
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

End Myself Pure Race Work
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Easy Field Myself Race Run Track
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Failure One Liner Preparation Yourself
What I want is to be number one.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Best Goal Inspirational Motivational Myself One Liner
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Move Run Support Yourself
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Art People Race Understand Way Work
No matter how hard you train, Somebody will train harder. No matter how hard you run, Somebody will run harder. No matter how hard you want it, Somebody will want it more, I am Somebody.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Competition Hard Work Inspirational Motivational Myself Training
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Art Beautiful Creation Music Myself People Run Word
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?’
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Easy Fun Myself Run Thinking
What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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Crazy Kind Mad Run Time

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

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