Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run.
STEVE PREFONTAINEI’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.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
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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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If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
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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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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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What I want is to be number one.
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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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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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A race is a work of art.
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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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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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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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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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