Author: Steve Prefontaine

Quotes

What I like most about track is the feeling I get inside after a good run.

What I like most about track is the feeling I get inside after a good run.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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

I know places you better speak low if you've been to college. Men will come across the room and cold-deck you if you hold your glass wrong.

I know places you better speak low if you've been to college. Men will come across the room and cold-deck you if you hold your glass wrong.

- Steve Prefontaine

If you can make money with your talents, why not?

If you can make money with your talents, why not?

- Steve Prefontaine

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

- Steve Prefontaine

I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

- Steve Prefontaine

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