You said I was weak. You said I couldn’t do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong.
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.
More Steve Prefontaine Quotes
-
-
What kind of crazy nut would spend two or three hours a day just running?
STEVE PREFONTAINE -
I run to see who has the most guts.
STEVE PREFONTAINE -
Don’t let fatigue make a coward of you.
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE -
Nobody likes tainted victories.
STEVE PREFONTAINE -
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
STEVE PREFONTAINE -
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
STEVE PREFONTAINE -
I like to make something beautiful when I run … it’s style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.
STEVE PREFONTAINE -
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 -
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 -
Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.
STEVE PREFONTAINE -
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 -
Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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.
STEVE PREFONTAINE -
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






