"To Give Anything Less Than Your Best is to Sacrifice the Gift." - Steve PreFontaine
Olympic runner, Steve PreFontaine, was a short kid from Oregon, with one leg longer than the other. People said he couldn't do it...He should quit, give up the dream...
But, little, crooked Steve PreFontaine pushed himself to be bigger than others thought he could be...in 1972, he pushed and pushed and qualified for the Summer Olympics where he raced against the best in the world.
"I am going to work so that it is a pure guts race. In the end, if it is, I am the only one who can win it."
"Somebody may beat me...but they're going to have to bleed to do it."
Life is never easy...and it's rarely fair...Keep on dreaming your dreams, and don't be afraid to give everything you've got to achieve them.
Dream...Believe...Be. Be Bigger than you thought you could be.
But, little, crooked Steve PreFontaine pushed himself to be bigger than others thought he could be...in 1972, he pushed and pushed and qualified for the Summer Olympics where he raced against the best in the world.
"I am going to work so that it is a pure guts race. In the end, if it is, I am the only one who can win it."
"Somebody may beat me...but they're going to have to bleed to do it."
Life is never easy...and it's rarely fair...Keep on dreaming your dreams, and don't be afraid to give everything you've got to achieve them.
Dream...Believe...Be. Be Bigger than you thought you could be.
posted by 619Muscle at
10:15 PM
3 Comments:
How fitting and encouraging to read that blog Pete. That really brought tears to my eyes. It's so true. Certainly puts things in perspective in my own journey. Thanks for sharing that.
I am glad this one touched you.
Thanks for the comment. This has been a theme of my own life as well...and I believe that most people would also feel this way. Life, like athletics, is 99% intestinal fortitude (guts, baby, guts) and 1% what you started with!
And I've always sincerely believed that when the journey is done, it's not where you end up, but how far you've come with what you've been given that matters...
I mean, really, what're you gonna do? Stop, sit there? NO! GET-UP-MOVE-DO-SOMETHING!
This is life, and this is how winning is done!
Pete
hey pete, loving this blog, i totally agree with steve prefontaine, we all gotta keep the dream alive and do everything we can to get there, life is all about how many times u can get hit and still get up and move foward, it sure aint easy to be pretty, but its sure easy to be ugly,who wants to be ugly? haha
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