More from Steve Prefontaine

  1. I hate having those people back there sucking on me.
  2. 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.
  3. I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.
  4. 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…
  5. 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'…
  6. Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
  7. A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
  8. Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

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