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Steve Prefontaine
American
Athlete
About the author
What I want is to be number one.
Steve Prefontaine,
American
Athlete
#Want
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 always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine,
American
Athlete
#Wonder
#Years
#Sense
#Self
#Achievement
#Running
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.
Steve Prefontaine,
American
Athlete
#People
#End
#Race
How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?
Steve Prefontaine,
American
Athlete
I run to see who has the most guts.
Steve Prefontaine,
American
Athlete
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,
American
Athlete
#Work
#End
#Race
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
Steve Prefontaine,
American
Athlete
#May
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine,
American
Athlete
#Sacrifice
Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.
Steve Prefontaine,
American
Athlete
#Want