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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.

Steve Prefontaine

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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Easy Fun Myself Run Thinking
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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Afraid Give Up Goodness Greatness Inspirational
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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Beautiful Better Creative Myself Run Style
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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Competition Hard Work Inspirational Motivational Myself Training
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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End Myself Pure Race Work
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
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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Move Run Support Yourself
What I want is to be number one.
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Best Goal Inspirational Motivational Myself One Liner
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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Inspirational Myself Need Thankful Weakness Wrong Yourself
Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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Coward Fear One Liner Tired Yourself
I don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
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Excitement Myself People Run
I run to see who has the most guts.
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One Liner Run See
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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Beautiful Creation Creative Music People Race Run Stop Style Yourself
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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Children Confidence Fun Learning Myself Run Slow
Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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Distance Run Start Success Travel Yourself
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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Art Artist Body Book Camera Myself Performance Philosophy See

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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