If you have a body, you are an athlete!

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. 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.

If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

There is no bad weather, just soft runners.

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.