Steve Prefontaine Quotes

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• You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
• Running gives me confidence.
• The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
• What I want is to be number one.
• I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
• How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're…
• 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…
• Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.
• 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…
• Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
• Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
• What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
• Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
• If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
• If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record.
• 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…
• To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
• 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…
• 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…
• Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

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