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 was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which… — Roger Bannister Athlete 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 Athlete Copy Share Image
I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more.… — Roger Bannister Five 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
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 wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine,… — Roger Bannister Affair Copy Share Image
Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite… — Roger Bannister Athlete 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
To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible,… — Roger Bannister Confidence Copy Share Image
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit,… — Roger Bannister Athlete 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 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
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
I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister Athlete Copy Share Image
I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful… — Roger Bannister Age Copy Share Image
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen… — Roger Bannister Athlete Copy Share Image
I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is… — Roger Bannister Athlete 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
