How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, ‘Your too small Pre’, ‘Your not fast enough Pre’, ‘Give up...

Something inside of me just said ‘Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,’ and I just took off.

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...

I don’t just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.

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

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.

A lot of people run to see who’s the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts.

You have to wonder at times what you’re doing out there. 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...

What I want is to be number one.

The only good race pace is suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.

Most people race to see who is the fastest, I race to see who has the most guts.

I run to see who has the most guts.

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.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.