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Athletics is a luxury.
Roger Bannister Quotes: Athletics is a luxury.
Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.
Roger Bannister Quotes: Just because they say it's
However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then…even thought impossible.
Roger Bannister Quotes: However ordinary each of us
The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.
Roger Bannister Quotes: The man who goes on,
Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.
Roger Bannister Quotes: Every time I ran the
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
Roger Bannister Quotes: I enjoy singing, and the
I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.
Roger Bannister Quotes: I had always wanted to
The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records.
Roger Bannister Quotes: The human spirit is indomitable.
There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I'd done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good.
Roger Bannister Quotes: There were only 170 neurologists
If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.
Roger Bannister Quotes: If I faltered, there would
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.
Roger Bannister Quotes: The reason sport is attractive
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: May is a very early
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 raced supremely well. I
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
Roger Bannister Quotes: It had always been a
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 involved in music,
I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.
Roger Bannister Quotes: I found longer races boring.
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.
Roger Bannister Quotes: I think that is a
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: Our house was bombed, and
I've 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: I've always been very impatient.
It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.
Roger Bannister Quotes: It is a paradox to
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't 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: Mothers, unless they were very
If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.
Roger Bannister Quotes: If a man coaches himself,
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 didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.
Roger Bannister Quotes: I lived on the top
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 always a great
Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.
Roger Bannister Quotes: Without the concentration of the
Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.
Roger Bannister Quotes: Your spikes, which were really
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: I was playing rugby and
I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.
Roger Bannister Quotes: I trained for less than
It's 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: It's a question of spreading
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 athleticism was really the
The mile has all the elements of a drama.
Roger Bannister Quotes: The mile has all the
Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.
Roger Bannister Quotes: Sport, like all of life,
No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.
Roger Bannister Quotes: No longer conscious of my
I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.
Roger Bannister Quotes: I couldn't touch my toes
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves ... The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.
Roger Bannister Quotes: We run, not because we
It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.
Roger Bannister Quotes: It is the brain, not
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister Quotes: The man who can drive
To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part ... no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.
Roger Bannister Quotes: To move into the lead
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: My introduction to track racing
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 family actually lived in
I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.
Roger Bannister Quotes: I couldn't disappoint people. I
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.
Roger Bannister Quotes: Sport is not about being
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