Quotes

“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.” 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.” Steve Prefontaine

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

“I run to see who has the most guts.” Steve Prefontaine

“What I want is to be number one.” Steve Prefontaine

“How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?” Steve Prefontaine

“I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.” 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

“Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.” Steve Prefontaine

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

“Nobody likes tainted victories.” 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

“Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'” Steve Prefontaine

“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 style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.” Steve Prefontaine

“When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work.” Steve Prefontaine

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” Marcel Proust

“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.” Marcel Proust

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” Marcel Proust

“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” Marcel Proust

“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

“It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.” Marcel Proust

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” Marcel Proust

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” Marcel Proust

“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.” Marcel Proust

“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.” Marcel Proust

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” Marcel Proust

“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” Marcel Proust

“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.” Marcel Proust