If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
STEVE PREFONTAINEHaving a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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Running gives me confidence.
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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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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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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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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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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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Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.
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The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn’t running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven’t forgotten about me.
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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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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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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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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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