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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.

Steve Prefontaine

What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Feeling Goodness Myself Run
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

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A race is a work of art.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Art One Liner Race Work
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
I run to see who has the most guts.
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One Liner Run See
Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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Coward Fear One Liner Tired Yourself
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Art Beautiful Creation Music Myself People Run Word
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
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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Afraid Give Up Goodness Greatness Inspirational
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
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
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

End Fast Myself Pain People Punishment Race Run
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

End Myself Pure Race Work
I can endure more pain then anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Endurance Myself Pain Tolerance Win
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Art People Race Understand Way Work
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Beautiful Creation Creative Music People Race Run Stop Style Yourself

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