I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at... -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.

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Steve Prefontaine Quotes to Explore

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....

Work Quotes to Explore

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work....
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around....
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it....
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work....
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success....
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work....
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard....
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're ...
Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you ...
I'm just not a guy that loves to eat. I love to work and love to work out. I think I go against all the nutritionists who say you need to do this or n...