Steve Prefontaine Quotes

Coos Bay is a sports-minded town. You had to be an athlete to be somebody.

Steve Prefontaine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 25, 1951 - May 30, 1975

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YouAthleteSomebodyBayTownHad

If you can keep a character fresh and alive for, let's say, six months, working eight nights a week, then you can do anything. You have honed your technique and your skills to such a degree by that point that you are ready to take on all kinds of challenges.

Joe Morton

CharacterChallengesWeekYouReady

I want 'Rent' to last forever.

Jesse L. Martin

WantRentForeverLast

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PositiveEncouragementMoreMuch

While the move to central clearing has made the system safer, we need to make sure that the central counterparties have the resources and risk-management practices to withstand plausible but severe shocks.

Jerome Powell

NeedResourcesSystemMoveSure

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Joey Adams

MarriageBetterYouSheTakeHer

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

John McCain

TrainingI AmNeedChiefCommander

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Robert Kiyosaki

HistoryMoneyValueBackKnowTrue

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment.

Stephen Breyer

MomentFeelJudgeYouSheOffice

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

Sidney Poitier

LiveJobPeopleCountryGoEat

I've got a single mother.

Torrey Smith

MotherSingleGotSingle Mother

The critical role of Congress in the adoption of international agreements was clearly laid out by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution. And it's a principle upon which Democrats and Republicans have largely agreed.

Tom Cotton

ConstitutionCongressOutClearly

My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she's a world-class singer, also.

Ron Cephas Jones

MotherMusicDaughterSheSinger

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