What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
STEVE PREFONTAINESome people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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As far as being a coach, it’s always fascinated me. It’s a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you’re dealing with people.
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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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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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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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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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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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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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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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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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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Running gives me confidence.
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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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