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"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

Steve Prefontaine, American Athlete

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"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

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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."

"Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it."

"What I want is to be number one."

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