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.
STEVE PREFONTAINEI run to see who has the most guts.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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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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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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PRE. For your dedication and loyalty to your principles and beliefs. For your love,warmth and friendship. For your family and friends. You are missed by so many and you will never be forgotten.
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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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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 can endure more pain then anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.
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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.
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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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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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A race is a work of art.
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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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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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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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