No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
STEVE PREFONTAINEIf 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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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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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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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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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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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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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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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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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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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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What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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What I want is to be number one.
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