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 PREFONTAINEWhat kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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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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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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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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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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Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
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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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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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I don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
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A race is a work of art.
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