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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

Steve Prefontaine

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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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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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No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
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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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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.
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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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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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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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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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I run to see who has the most guts.
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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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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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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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Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
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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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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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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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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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Running gives me confidence.
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What I want is to be number one.
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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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What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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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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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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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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