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A race is a work of art.
Running gives me confidence.
Nobody likes tainted victories.
What I want is to be number one.
I run to see who has the most guts.
Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
If you can make money with your talents, why not?
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.
If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.
It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.
It doesn't feel that good when you're ahead the whole way.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
The AAU doesn't care about the athletes; why should I care about them?
The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
What I like most about track is the feeling I get inside after a good run.
Coos Bay is a sports-minded town. You had to be an athlete to be somebody.
You probably choose x-country because you were too small to play football.
How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
Did you ever run behind a slow pack? You get a trailing wind and a lot of body odor.
I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.
It's hard to run a mile when you're not a miler and to kick when you've led all the way.
I'm the one who has made all the sacrifices. Those are my American records, not the country's.
Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.
I can endure more pain then anyone you've met. That's why I win, because I can endure more pain.
Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
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 decided that if I was going to continue in track, that I didn't want to lose, that I wasn't going to lose.
You said I was weak. You said I couldn't do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run
If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.
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.
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.
I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
World records at 19. I don't want that. Later, yes. And when it comes, I'll learn to live with it, but it won't be my first love.
People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it's not gonna be that way.
Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.
I know places you better speak low if you've been to college. Men will come across the room and cold-deck you if you hold your glass wrong.