Quotes by Steve Prefontaine  

Some people create with words or with music or with paint and a brush. I like to make something beautiful when i run. I like to make people say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.  

"To give anything less than your best is to be a big fat jerk."

         Random Quotes  

In running there is no off season. Because running is not just a sport, its a lifestyle.

If the going is easy, beware - you may be headed downhill.

Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.

 It's not the team with the best players, it's the players with the best team.

 Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

 Make today the best day of the rest of your life.

 The will to prepare is as important as the will to win.

 Achievement without adversity is boredom.

 Losers say what they can do.  Winners show what they can do.

 Courage is the willingness to take risk and act in spite of fear.

 Always reach higher than what you can touch.

 Be not afraid of moving slowly; be afraid only by standing still.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent, if no birds sang except for the very best.

It is hard to be a person that never gives up.

The only limits in your life are the ones you set for yourself.

Life is like running a race.  Pain is endured, but when you hit the finish line, it is all worth it.

Sacrifice pays off.

Vision + Sacrifice + Patience = SUCCESS

In order to get what you've never had, do what you've never done.

Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.

Experience is the only teacher that gives you the test before the lesson.

You can only go as far as you push.

 Big dreams and a poor work ethic is a sure to lead to success, if failure is your aim.

 There is a big difference between involvement and commitment.

 Successful people do what unsuccessful people dare not to do.

 Success should not be measured by the outcome of the game, but by preparation, attitude, and effort.

 Success is motivational and inspirational.  The process is painful and wearisome.

 If you have failed... don't worry; you've just cut the way to success.

 It takes a strong fish to swim against the current; even a dead one can float with it.

 Failure is never as bad as regret.

 Don't gloat over your victories nor fret over your losses.  Take each for what they are and move on.

 The direction in which we are going is more important than where we are.

            Quotes by Winston Churchill

 Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

 Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

 Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.

 The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."

 I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

 It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

 The price of greatness is responsibility.

 Show mercy, but do not ask for it

Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

 In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Be not simply good; be good for something.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Quotes by Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living 

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Quotes by Aristotle

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

We acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

We learn by doing.

Quotes by Albert Einstein

The only way to escape the corruption of praise is to go on working...There is nothing else.

I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.

There is only one road to true human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

            Quotes by William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Fight till the last gasp.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are our gardeners.

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger .

Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

  Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

  If anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

 A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his aspirations.