Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
STEVE PREFONTAINENobody likes tainted victories.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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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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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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What I want is to be number one.
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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.
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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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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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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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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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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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No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
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I run to see who has the most guts.
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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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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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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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