Bill Bowerman: For the time being, let's not have you working out with the team. You'll be facing Viren all over again at the Montreal Olympics. I don't want you racing anyone now. I just want you running. You have to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face... Steve Prefontaine.
Bill Bowerman: Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: Life.
Steve Prefontaine: I'd like to work it out so that at the end, it's a pure guts race. If it is, I'm the only one who can win it.
Mary Marckx: You ran great in Munich.
Steve Prefontaine: No, Viren ran great, I was fourth.
Steve Prefontaine: You know me Bill, I've always been sort of an Adidas freak.
Steve Prefontaine: I don't want to win unless I know I've done my best, and the only way I know how to do that is to run out front, flat out until I have nothing left. Winning any other way is chicken-shit.
Steve Prefontaine: It's the hardest thing in the world to believe in something, if you do it's a miracle.
Steve Prefontaine: I can endure more pain than anyone you've ever met. That's why I can beat anyone I've ever met.
