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

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• A STORY OF �PURE GUTS�
  " 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."
• UNSTOPPABLE COMPETITOR
  "Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it."
• PRE'S PEOPLE
  " I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting."
  No one who saw Pre run ever forgot him; he was the most popular track athlete in the world. When Pre ran, the screaming and stomping in the stands was deafening;
• THE REBEL'S CAUSE
  " I'm going to work it so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it."
• SOUL OF NIKE
  " I like to make something beautiful when I run. It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative."
• PRE LIVES ON
  "Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started� self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement."
  Pre ran and won his last race on May 29, 1975, at Hayward Field in Eugene . He died in a car crash the next morning at age 24.