Quote #4

I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.

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  1. How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre'…
  2. I hate having those people back there sucking on me.
  3. A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
  4. I run best when I run free.
  5. 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…
  6. 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.
  7. 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 peopl…
  8. Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

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