Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part… — Roger Bannister Concepts Copy Share Image
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in… — Roger Bannister Athlete Copy Share Image
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important.… — Roger Bannister Achievement Copy Share Image
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — Roger Bannister Activity Copy Share Image
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify… — Roger Bannister Able 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 Athlete Copy Share Image
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived… — Roger Bannister Athlete 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 Able Copy Share Image
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up… — Roger Bannister Athletic Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop,… — Roger Bannister After Copy Share Image
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister Effort Copy Share Image
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run,… — Roger Bannister Children Copy Share Image
If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten. — Roger Bannister Beaten Copy Share Image
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. — Roger Bannister Broken Copy Share Image
I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to… — Roger Bannister Athlete Copy Share Image
Many of Life's barriers and obstacles come from within. Success is a choice to chosen wisely, because the choice you make today… — Roger Bannister Life Copy Share Image
The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally… — Roger Bannister Essence Copy Share Image
You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that… — Roger Bannister Amount Copy Share Image
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of… — Roger Bannister Athlete 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 Mark Copy Share Image
When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the… — Roger Bannister Athlete Copy Share Image
