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“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

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“What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?”
- Steve Prefontaine (How he reacted in junior high when he saw the high school XC team running)

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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. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. […]

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“You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.”
- Gatorade

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“If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want.
Why?
Because . . .
(a) you’ll burn all the calories you consume,
(b) you deserve it, and
(c) you’ll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.”
- Don Kardong

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“Other people may not have high expectations of me, but I have high expectations for myself.”
- Shannon Miller, 7-time Olympic medal winning gymnast

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“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

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“The thing about Pre is that he ran as hard as he could every race, and if you were going to beat him, you were going to have to run harder than he did.”
- Bob Kennedy

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“When you are a up-and-coming runner in the U.S., and making some breakthroughs in distances, Pre is still the man that you are compared to. It’s always based on Pre.”
- Bob Kennedy

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“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
- Seneca

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