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Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Steve Prefontaine

As far as being a coach, it’s always fascinated me. It’s a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you’re dealing with people.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Deal Greatness Leadership People Responsibility Yourself
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Motivational Run Satisfaction Success Time Wonderful Yourself
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Blood Inspirational Motivational Tough Yourself
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 PREFONTAINE

Art Artist Body Book Camera Myself Performance Philosophy See
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

End Fast Myself Pain People Punishment Race Run
What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Feeling Goodness Myself Run
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Children Confidence Fun Learning Myself Run Slow
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Move Run Support Yourself
I don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Excitement Myself People Run
Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Coward Fear One Liner Tired Yourself
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Competition Hard Work Inspirational Motivational Myself Training
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

End Myself Pure Race Work
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Belief Dedication Friendship Love Loyalty Missing Principle Warm Yourself
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?’
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Easy Fun Myself Run Thinking
What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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Crazy Kind Mad Run Time
Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Distance Run Start Success Travel Yourself

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