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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.

Steve Prefontaine

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 you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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Failure One Liner Preparation Yourself
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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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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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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What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Run
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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I run to see who has the most guts.
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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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Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
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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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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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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 let fatigue make a coward of you.
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Coward Fear One Liner Tired Yourself
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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Motivational Run Satisfaction Success Time Wonderful Yourself
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
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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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