“Without Limits” quotes
(1998)
Title Without Limits
Year 1998
Director Robert Towne
Genre Drama, Sport, Biography
Year 1998
Director Robert Towne
Genre Drama, Sport, Biography
Plot – The movie depicts the life of the American middle-distance runner Steve Prefontaine. From his first achievements at university with the coach Bill Bowerman, to the Olympics Games in Monaco and the premature death in a car accident.
All actors – Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Jeremy Sisto, Matthew Lillard, Dean Norris, Billy Burke, Gabriel Olds, Judith Ivey, William Mapother, Adam Setliff, Nicholas R. Oleson
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“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...” (continue)(continue reading)
“It's the hardest thing in the world to believe in something, if you do it's a miracle.”
“For the time being, let's not have you working out with the team. You'll be facing Viren all over again at the Montreal Olympics. I don't want you racing anyone now. I just want you running. You have to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face... 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.”
“I can endure more pain than anyone you've ever met. That's why I can beat anyone I've ever met.”
“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.”
“When I became a coach I tried to teach people how to do that. Tried to teach Pre how to do that. Tried like hell to teach Pre to do that. And Pre taught me. Taught me I was wrong. Pre, you see, was troubled by knowing that a mediocre effort can win a race and a magnificent effort can lose one. Winning a race wouldn't necessarily demand that he...” (continue)(continue reading)
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