I can endure more pain then anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.
STEVE PREFONTAINEI can endure more pain then anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.
STEVE PREFONTAINEWhat I want is to be number one.
STEVE PREFONTAINESomebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
STEVE PREFONTAINEMy 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.
STEVE PREFONTAINEEvery 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 PREFONTAINEA 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 PREFONTAINEHaving a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
STEVE PREFONTAINEI’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 PREFONTAINEI don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
STEVE PREFONTAINENobody likes tainted victories.
STEVE PREFONTAINEA race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.
STEVE PREFONTAINEI’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 PREFONTAINETo give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
STEVE PREFONTAINEWhat kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
STEVE PREFONTAINEYou said I was weak. You said I couldn’t do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong.
STEVE PREFONTAINEWhat I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.
STEVE PREFONTAINE