Quote #12
The real reason to run a race is not to win the race but to test the limits of the human heart.
More from Steve Prefontaine
- The best pace is a suicide pace, and today is a good day to die.
- To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift.
- Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.
- What I want is to be number one.
- Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
- 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 peopl…
- 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 run best when I run free.