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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.

Steve Prefontaine

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PRE. For your dedication and loyalty to your principles and beliefs. For your love,warmth and friendship. For your family and friends. You are missed by so many and you will never be forgotten.
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Belief Dedication Friendship Love Loyalty Missing Principle Warm Yourself
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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Easy Fun Myself Run Thinking
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
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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Afraid Give Up Goodness Greatness Inspirational
Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
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Difficult Faith Motivational Run True Try World Yourself
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
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Easy Field Myself Race Run Track
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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End Myself Pure Race Work
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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Myself Voice Wait
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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Field Forget Ideas Lose Myself People Run
As far as being a coach, it’s always fascinated me. It’s a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you’re dealing with people.
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Running gives me confidence.
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Confidence Myself Run Sports
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.
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End Fast Myself Pain People Punishment Race 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.
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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
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
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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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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Endurance Myself Pain Tolerance Win
I run to see who has the most guts.
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One Liner Run See
Nobody likes tainted victories.
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One Liner Victory Win
Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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Coward Fear One Liner Tired Yourself
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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Competition International Man Myself Run
What I want is to be number one.
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Best Goal Inspirational Motivational Myself One Liner
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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Failure One Liner Preparation Yourself
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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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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Art People Race Understand Way Work
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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