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 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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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
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A race is a work of art.
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What I want is to be number one.
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What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
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No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run.
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Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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Running gives me confidence.
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