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 PREFONTAINESomebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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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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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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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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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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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.
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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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Running gives me confidence.
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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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A race is a work of art.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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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’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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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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