What I want is to be number one.
STEVE PREFONTAINESome 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.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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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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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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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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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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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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Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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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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No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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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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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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