Without Limits
1998
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: 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.
Steve Prefontaine: I can endure more pain than anyone you've ever met. That's why I can beat anyone I've ever met.
Steve Prefontaine: Bill, has it ever occurred to you that there's such a thing as overcoaching? Bill Bowerman: Yeah... I'm against it.
Mary Marckx: You ran great in Munich. Steve Prefontaine: No, Viren ran great, I was fourth.
Bill Bowerman: Know what your problem is, Pre? Vanity! Steve Prefontaine: Vanity? Bill Bowerman: Yes, vanity, Pre! Your belief that you have no talent is the ultimate vanity. If you have no talent then you have no limits, it's all an act of will. Your heart can probably pump more blood than anyone else's on earth, and that takes talent. The bones in your feet are so strong, it'd take a sledgehammer to break 'em. Be thankful for your limits, Pre, they're about as limitless as they get in this life.
Mary Marckx: Do you believe in God? Steve Prefontaine: I believe in myself.
Steve Prefontaine: It's the hardest thing in the world to believe in something, if you do it's a miracle.