8 Steve Prefontaine Quotes on Running

Steve Prefontaine quotes on running

1. 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. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

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

4. I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.

6. I run best when I run free.

7. 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.

8. 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 people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

11. The best pace is a suicide pace, and today is a good day to die.

12. The real reason to run a race is not to win the race but to test the limits of the human heart.