Steve Prefontaine Quotes

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
What I want is to be number one.
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Best Goal Inspirational Motivational Myself One Liner
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.
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Competition Hard Work Inspirational Motivational Myself Training
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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Art People Race Understand Way Work
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
Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
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Difficult Faith Motivational Run True Try World 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.
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Motivational Run Satisfaction Success Time Wonderful Yourself
What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Run
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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Inspirational Myself Need Thankful Weakness Wrong Yourself
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
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
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
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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Move Run Support Yourself
Nobody likes tainted victories.
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One Liner Victory Win
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
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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Blood Inspirational Motivational Tough Yourself
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
Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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Coward Fear One Liner Tired Yourself
As far as being a coach, it’s always fascinated me. It’s a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you’re dealing with people.
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Deal Greatness Leadership People Responsibility Yourself
What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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Crazy Kind Mad Run Time
A race is a work of art.
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Art One Liner Race Work
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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Failure One Liner Preparation Yourself
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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Children Confidence Fun Learning Myself Run Slow
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
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
If he’s having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters, nobody except me.
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Goodness Myself Race Right Run Sports
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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Ability Best Gift Inspirational Motivational Sacrifice Yourself

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