Steve Prefontaine Movie Quotes

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. ~ Steve Prefontaine

What I want is to be number one. ~ Steve Prefontaine

What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run. ~ Steve Prefontaine

I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting. ~ Steve Prefontaine

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

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you. ~ Steve Prefontaine

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. ~ Steve Prefontaine

If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record. ~ Steve Prefontaine

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift. ~ Steve Prefontaine

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. ~ 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

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

As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you're dealing with people. ~ Steve Prefontaine

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

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. ~ Steve Prefontaine

A race is a work of art. ~ Steve Prefontaine

You said I was weak. You said I couldn't do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong. ~ 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

I can endure more pain then anyone you've met. That's why I win, because I can endure more pain. ~ Steve Prefontaine

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. ~ Steve Prefontaine

The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me. ~ Steve Prefontaine

The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die. ~ Steve Prefontaine

How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN. ~ 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. ~ 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

PRE. For your dedication and loyalty to your principles and beliefs. For your love,warmth and friendship. For your family and friends. You are missed by so many and you will never be forgotten. ~ 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

The life of a Kindle book is a few years, give or take. ~ Prentice 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

Nobody had a bigger heart or passion to win than America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine "Pre." Watch the movies Prefontaine, Without Limits, or Fire on the Track to see what I'm talking about. ~ Robert Cheeke

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
Steve Martin ~ Steve Martin

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

I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can't be a movie critic with a collection of six or seven hundred DVDs that includes everything from 'Tokyo Story' to 'Poison Ivy: The New Seduction' and not have a Bergman movie. ~ Steve Erickson

Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of. ~ Steve Buscemi

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

If I were in Steve Prefontaine's shoes, I'd have done the same thing he did. Except for all that running. I wouldn't have done that. ~ Jarod Kintz

Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.' ~ Steve Erickson

Im not going to stress over you anymore. It isnt worth it. I tried to work something out but you just ignored it. Im not trying to say I dont want you, because I definitely do. All Im saying is Im done chasing after you. ~ Edward Prefontaine Humbert

'Anchorman' ... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love. ~ Steve Carell

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars. ~ Steve Guttenberg

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. ~ Steve Buscemi

A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast. ~ Steve Martin

What we got here is a failure to communicate. ~ Paul Newman

Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.' ~ Steve Carell

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong. ~ Steve Erickson

Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way. ~ Steve Erickson

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too. ~ Steve Erickson

Open the pod bay doors, Hal. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

People in the movie division hate the people in the cable group ... Ultimately, you work for NBCUniversal, not Bravo or Syfy. ~ Steve Burke

David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster. ~ Steve Erickson

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.' ~ Steve McQueen

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.' ~ Steve Schirripa

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa. ~ Steve Carell

The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark. ~ Steve Erickson

Real artists ship. ~ Steve Jobs

Steve's downstairs. He showed up at the door just as Reed was taken away."
"Steve," Easton echoes, slightly dazed. "Uncle Steve?"
Sebastian makes a croaky sound. "Dead Uncle Steve? ~ Erin Watt

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie. ~ Steve Nash

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate? ~ Steve Jobs

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. ~ Steve Buscemi

Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.' ~ Steve Erickson

Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope.
-Steve Jobs. ~ Steve Jobs

Writing is like headlice, impossible to fully cure. ~ Steve Merrick

I did meet Steve Wozniak on several occasions leading up to the filming of the movie [Steve Jobs]. It wasn't really written how he is. So the second I met him, it almost was a relief, because I was like, "OK, good, the real Steve Wozniak is like one of the least confrontational people you would ever meet in your entire life." ~ Seth Rogen

No Navigator, we are just going with the flow of it all.
007 In The Navigator by Steve Merrick ~ Steve Merrick

Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions ... ~ Steve Merrick

Son of a bitch! You're Steve Allen! ~ Steve Allen

Computers are like a bicycle for the mind. ~ Steve Jobs

In a way, all Scandinavian movies are descendants of the original Scandinavian Christian-metaphor movie, Danish director Carl Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' one of the seven or eight best films ever made and impossible to watch more than once. ~ Steve Erickson

They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children or with a group of children because you see the kids in front of you from time to time reaching up. You see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. I think it's remarkable and it does obviously, literally, add another dimension to the movie. ~ Steve Carell

MINECRAFT HOUSES A collection of blueprints by JUST STEVE ~ Just Steve

Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line! ~ Stone Cold Steve Austin

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right ~ Steve Jobs

Zoom Zoom said Mr Photon oblivious to the mere mortal problems of math ~ Steve Merrick

Parliament/Congress.
less entertaining than paint drying, but more dangerous than any minefield is. ~ Steve Merrick

This will never come again ~ Steve Hagen

When broken minds embrace any hypothetical god then what you get is a proportionally broken result. ~ Steve Merrick

Politics.
It used to mean something, but it is now merely an abstract part of the entertainments industry. ~ Steve Merrick

If you stop chasing your dream, you're already dead. ~ Steve Mazan

Theres nothing more fun than a kitten in zero gravity. ~ Steve Merrick

Steve's life wasn't a movie. It was inspiring, confounding, and unabashedly human, to the very end. ~ Brent Schlender

I have found repeatedly hitting my head with a mallet doesn't help at all, so i am open to suggestions. ~ Steve Merrick

My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats. ~ Steve Merrick

No, It's not failed, it's correcting itself through failure,
Kego O'Grady in the Navogator by Steve Merrick. ~ Steve Merrick

Most of us are latent Steve Jobs! We just need guts to surface. ~ Haresh Sippy

Ignoring global warming is like crossing a road blindfolded. ~ Steve Merrick

London? It's a city full of sleepwalkers chasing other people's dreams. ~ Steve Merrick

So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny. ~ Steve Martin

If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is? ~ Steve Merrick

Focus is saying no to 1,000 good ideas. ~ Steve Jobs

I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it, screen it, go back, then work on it a little bit more. If the joke doesn't work, you can fix it. It's different from a live action movie. ~ Steve Martin

It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny. ~ Steve Buscemi

Three lights should be fine." - Zachary
"Aye, well if it wis me, I'd want a bloody lighthoose beacon comin' oot o' my arse." - True MacDonald ~ Steve Alten

Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go. ~ Steve Truglia

Time is a valuable resource, and taking time to help someone else will help put your life in perspective. ~ Steve Repak

Live until you die." spoken by Nana Antonia in Steve Burt's story "Nana Antonia's Christmas Wish" in Family Circle Magazine. The story is also found as "Christmas Eve 12 Plus 97" in Steve' book, A Christmas Dozen. ~ Steve Burt

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
~ Steve McVey

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it. ~ Steve Jobs

I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself. ~ Steve Martin

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005] ~ Steve Jobs

Finding a protest without placards is like photographing a hippie without a bong. ~ Steve Merrick