If I want to go to Europe and get thrashed by the ... -Steve Prefontaine

If I want to go to Europe and get thrashed by the Europeans, that's my business. Every race I lose I learn from and get tougher.

Steve Prefontaine , Athlete
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It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain....
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift....
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 ...
For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I hate all this gung-ho, run-for-the-red-white-and-bl...
If I want to go to Europe and get thrashed by the Europeans, that's my business. Every race I lose I learn from and get tougher....
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art...
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding....
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....
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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I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me....
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I've wrestled some of the strongest, most athletic guys this business has ever seen. Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Mark Henry, Kane. These guys are phenome...
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Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of tr...
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world....
From my standpoint, we ought to be talking about... how do you make Wisconsin a more attractive place for risk-taking, business investment, business e...
Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art....
Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am...
You could have everything right but be in the wrong place. You think your business is no good, but really, the problem is your place is no good....