To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
STEVE PREFONTAINENo one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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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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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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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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Running gives me confidence.
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I run to see who has the most guts.
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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 I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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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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What I want is to be number one.
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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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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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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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