93 Quotes by Steve Prefontaine

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.

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.

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

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. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

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.

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.