A Quote by Steve Prefontaine
Nobody likes tainted victories.
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You can't eat tomatoes because they're tainted with deadly salmonella. First there was tainted lettuce. Now, tainted tomatoes. Who would have thought that the healthiest part of a B.L.T. would be the bacon?
I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
I know nobody likes practice, nobody enjoys it, but you have to build some type of excitement and expectation and learn something.
Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.
Love yourself. Nobody's perfect. I mean, come on, nobody is perfect. Not you, not your mom, even the people on TV - nobody is perfect, and there's always something that nobody likes, but you know, you just accept that. Your imperfections make you beautiful. It's those things you find you don't like that someone else finds very special and very unique about you.
If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.
Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.
Nobody told me that I would be just a player to be exchanged. Nobody likes to be a part of that situation, especially not me.
Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.
You know, nobody likes to see innocent people die. Nobody wants to turn on their TV on a daily basis and see havoc wrought by terrorists.
What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to transform a defeat into something else, something new, something strong. All the good stories, all the people we remember are the ones who do this, who make victories out of their failures. Because the victories teach nothing. The victories are not useful. They are often dangerous.
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