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
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
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
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
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'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 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
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 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
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
You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that… — 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
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 Choice 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 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 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 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
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify… — Roger Bannister 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
