What I want is to be number one.
From 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.
Nobody likes tainted victories.
If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
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?'
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.
You probably choose x-country because you were too small to play football.
To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.
I'm the one who has made all the sacrifices. Those are my American records, not the country's.
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