Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.
STEVE PREFONTAINEI can endure more pain then anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
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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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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 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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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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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 don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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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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Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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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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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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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?’
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I run to see who has the most guts.
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