To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
STEVE PREFONTAINEEvery 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?’
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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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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What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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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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You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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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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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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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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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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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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Nobody likes tainted victories.
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What I want is to be number one.
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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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