To give anything less than your best, is to sacrif... -Steve Prefontaine

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

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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The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all....
Prosperity is the best protector of principle....
Fatigue is the best pillow....
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them....
Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can....
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'...
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws....
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last....