Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I… — Roger Bannister Athlete Copy Share Image
My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of… — Roger Bannister Acceptance 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
It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ. — Roger Bannister Brain Copy Share Image
I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment,… — Roger Bannister Athlete Copy Share Image
My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in… — Roger Bannister America Copy Share Image
I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative… — Roger Bannister Acting Copy Share Image
The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner. — Roger Bannister Goes on 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 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
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 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
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 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
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves — Roger Bannister Distance runner 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
Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result. — Roger Bannister Concentration 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 Faster Copy Share Image
“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive.… — Roger Bannister Every morning Copy Share Image
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record. — Roger Bannister Athlete Copy Share Image
There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a… — Roger Bannister Academic Copy Share Image
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established… — Roger Bannister Association 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
