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What I want is to be number one.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

Steve Prefontaine

American athletes, especially distance runners, are at a big disadvantage against the rest of the world. We're expected to live by all the rules, like not being able to coach, but still train and make our own living.

Steve Prefontaine

It doesn't feel that good when you're ahead the whole way.

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

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

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

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

Steve Prefontaine

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

Steve Prefontaine

This is my last year at Oregon, and it means a lot to me. The people have been great to me up there, so if I have to run three races to win the Pac-8 title, I'll do it. Oh, sure, I'll probably be tired, but the people shouting will carry me across the finish line.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

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.

Steve Prefontaine

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

Steve Prefontaine

What I want is to be number one.

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.

Steve Prefontaine

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

Steve Prefontaine

Nobody likes tainted victories.

Steve Prefontaine

Did you ever run behind a slow pack? You get a trailing wind and a lot of body odor.

Steve Prefontaine

Coos Bay is a sports-minded town. You had to be an athlete to be somebody.

Steve Prefontaine

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

Steve Prefontaine

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.

Steve Prefontaine

To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.

Steve Prefontaine

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

Steve Prefontaine

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

Steve Prefontaine

What does it prove, running in the AAU meet?

Steve Prefontaine

If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slow pace, and I get beaten by a kicker who leaches off the front, then I'll always wonder, 'What if...?'

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.

Steve Prefontaine

People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it's not gonna be that way.

Steve Prefontaine