I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running? — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you train, Somebody will train harder. No matter how hard you run, Somebody will run harder. No matter… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run.… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you're dealing… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share
Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share
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… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share
When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share
I'm the one who has made all the sacrifices. Those are my American records, not the country's. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share
The AAU doesn't care about the athletes; why should I care about them? — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share
People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it's not… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement.… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share
I decided that if I was going to continue in track, that I didn't want to lose, that I wasn't going to lose. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share
