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Steve Prefontaine
 
Name:   Steve Prefontaine
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Jan 25, 1951
 
Date of Death:   May 30,  1975
 
Profession:   Athlete
 
 
 
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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
 
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
 
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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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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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What I want is to be number one.
 
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How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?
 
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Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.
 
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I run to see who has the most guts.
 
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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.
 
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