Steve Prefontaine Quotes

"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."
- Steve Prefontaine
(Related: Achievement, Running, Self, Sense, Wonder, Years)

"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."
- Steve Prefontaine
(Related: People, End, Race)

"How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?"
- Steve Prefontaine

"I run to see who has the most guts."
- Steve Prefontaine

"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."
- Steve Prefontaine
(Related: Work, End, Race)

"Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it."
- Steve Prefontaine
(Related: May)

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
- Steve Prefontaine
(Related: Sacrifice)

"Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off."
- Steve Prefontaine
(Related: Want)