Steve Prefontaine Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

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

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

• 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

  Motivational, Success, Softball

• The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Life, Suicide, Running

• Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Distance, Track

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

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, May, Beats

• Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Coward, Fatigue

• 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

  Running, Pain, Race

• No matter how hard you train, Somebody will train harder. No matter how hard you run, Somebody will run harder. No matter how hard you want it, Somebody will want it more, I am Somebody.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Want, Matter

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

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Dream, Giving Up

• I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, People

• Running gives me confidence.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Inspirational Running, Giving

• You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Track, Aviation

• 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

  Running, Winning, Race

• 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. It's being creative.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Beautiful, Running

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

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, Art

• Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Fun, Thinking

• What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Crazy, Nuts

• 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 with people.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Responsibility, People

• Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Running, Trying

• The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Ideas, People

• What I want is to be number one.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Numbers, Want

• I run to see who has the most guts.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Sports, Running, Track

• I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Boys, Competition

• 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

  Running, Good Day, Race

• Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Fun, Kids

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