I can endure more pain then anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.
STEVE PREFONTAINERunning gives me confidence.
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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Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
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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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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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What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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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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A race is a work of art.
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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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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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What I want is to be number one.
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Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.
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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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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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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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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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