American - Athlete | January 25, 1951 - May 30, 1975
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine
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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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If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.
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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.
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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. 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.
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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 anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.
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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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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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This is my last year at Oregon, and it means a lot to me. The people have been great to me up there, so if I have to run three races to win the Pac-8 title, I'll do it. Oh, sure, I'll probably be tired, but the people shouting will carry me across the finish line.
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
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I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears.
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