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No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me. — Steve Prefontaine

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

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off. — Steve Prefontaine

A race is a work of art. — Steve Prefontaine

What I want is to be number one. — Steve Prefontaine

I run to see who has the most guts. — Steve Prefontaine

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children. — Sholom Aleichem

Bitch, you are SO lucky you didn't try to eat my dog. — Jeaniene Frost

If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record. — Steve Prefontaine

We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them. — Cees Nooteboom

It wasn't until the car turned the corner and headed down a busy Paris street that I slumped back in the seat, but my slumpage was short-lived — Katie MacAlister

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you. — Steve Prefontaine

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters ... nobody except me. — Steve Prefontaine

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. — Steve Prefontaine

What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run. — Steve Prefontaine

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile. — Ovid

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. — Julia Cameron

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine. — Bill Bowerman

We are not measured by the challenges we face in life, but rather by the steps we take to overcome them. — Rick Daley

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. — Steve Prefontaine

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. — Steve Prefontaine

The way to get started is to take the first step with dream-powered optimism. — Debasish Mridha

Running gives me confidence. — Steve Prefontaine

Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up — Alexandra Potter

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

in your deeds and in your works, don't expect to start reaping just as you start sowing. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. — Steve Prefontaine

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. — Steve Prefontaine

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift. — Steve Prefontaine

What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running? — Steve Prefontaine

Don't let fatigue make a coward of you. — Steve Prefontaine

I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting. — Steve Prefontaine

I can endure more pain then anyone you've met. That's why I win, because I can endure more pain. — Steve Prefontaine

The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die. — Steve Prefontaine

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. — Steve Prefontaine

You said I was weak. You said I couldn't do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong. — Steve Prefontaine

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know. — John Green

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. — Steve Prefontaine