What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
STEVE PREFONTAINESomething inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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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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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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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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I run to see who has the most guts.
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Running gives me confidence.
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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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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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What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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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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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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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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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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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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What I want is to be number one.
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