Quotes of Steve Prefontaine - somelinesforyou

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

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine

“ It’s not who’s the best – it’s who can take the most pain. ”

- Steve Prefontaine

“ Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts. ”

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine

“ How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'Your too small Pre', 'Your not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I have to win. ”

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- 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

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

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine

“ What I want is to be number one. ”

- Steve Prefontaine

“ A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as they're capable of understanding. ”

- Steve Prefontaine

“ 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… ”

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine

“ What I want is to be number one. ”

- Steve Prefontaine

“ What I want is to be number one. ”

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine

“ How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'Your too small Pre', 'Your not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I have to win. ”

- Steve Prefontaine

“ 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… ”

- Steve Prefontaine

“ What I want is to be number one. ”

- Steve Prefontaine

“ 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… ”

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- 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

“ 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… ”

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine

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

- Steve Prefontaine
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