What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
STEVE PREFONTAINESuccess isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.
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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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I run to see who has the most guts.
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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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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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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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Running gives me confidence.
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