If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
STEVE PREFONTAINEWhat I want is to be number one.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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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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I don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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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 run to see who has the most guts.
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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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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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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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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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