 " Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." -Pre "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. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself." -Pre |
Quotes
by Steve Prefontaine
"To
give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift" -Pre
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"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 people stop and say, "I've never seen anyone run
like that before". It's more than just a race, it's a
style. It's doing something better than anyone else, its being
creative." Pre
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"I
don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching
something exciting."-Pre
"What
I want is to be number one." -Pre
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"
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as
many ways they're understanding." -Pre
"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." -Pre
"Somebody
may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it." -Pre
"Something
inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him.' and I
just took off." -Pre
"You
have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the
years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it
always comes back to where it started. It comes down to
self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement." -Pre
"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' , 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your dream Steve'.
But they forgot something, I have to win!."-Pre
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