We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that.… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark.… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
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… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister Copy Share
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I… — Roger Bannister Copy Share
If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten. — Roger Bannister Copy Share
