Quotes by Steve Prefontaine

• What I want is to be number one.
• 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.
• 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.
• How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?
• I run to see who has the most guts.
• 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.
• 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.
• Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.