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Roger Bannister Quotes
Athletics is a luxury. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasnt until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I couldnt disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldnt race again within another 10 days. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I did lose my sight for a bit because I was crowded in. Everybody rushed on to the track. Then a couple of minutes later the announcement came. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car-we didnt have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, Ive yet to meet. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career. - Roger Bannister Quotes
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin. - Roger Bannister Quotes
Ive always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit! - Roger Bannister Quotes
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside. - Roger Bannister Quotes
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record. - Roger Bannister Quotes
It was fortunate for me that the pathway of record breaking, which continues in all aspects of athletics, had just reached this magical critical four minutes: four laps of one minute each, on a quarter-mile track. - Roger Bannister Quotes
Its a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower. - Roger Bannister Quotes
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury. - Roger Bannister Quotes
May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven. - Roger Bannister Quotes
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didnt work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. - Roger Bannister Quotes
My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. - Roger Bannister Quotes
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. - Roger Bannister Quotes
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. - Roger Bannister Quotes
My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England. - Roger Bannister Quotes
Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town. - Roger Bannister Quotes
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized. - Roger Bannister Quotes
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. - Roger Bannister Quotes
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that its filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesnt happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. - Roger Bannister Quotes
When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor-a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside. - Roger Bannister Quotes
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