Roger Bannister Quotes

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• The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
• 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…
• 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…
• If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it.…
• Athletics is a luxury.
• I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
• I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links…
• 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…
• 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 track…
• 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…
• The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important,…
• Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.
• Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the holiday.
• If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.
• 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…
• If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.
• 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.…
• The mile has all the elements of a drama.
• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves
• The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

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