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A race is a work of art.

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
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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End Myself Pure Race Work
Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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Coward Fear One Liner Tired Yourself
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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Blood Inspirational Motivational Tough Yourself
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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Inspirational Myself Need Thankful Weakness Wrong Yourself
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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Beautiful Creation Creative Music People Race Run Stop Style Yourself
Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.
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Myself Voice Wait
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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Endurance Myself Pain Tolerance Win
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
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Easy Field Myself Race Run Track
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
I don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
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Excitement Myself People Run
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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End Fast Myself Pain People Punishment Race 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.
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Children Confidence Fun Learning Myself Run Slow
Running gives me confidence.
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Confidence Myself Run Sports
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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Field Forget Ideas Lose Myself People Run
What I want is to be number one.
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Best Goal Inspirational Motivational Myself One Liner

A race is a work of art.

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