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Had Quotes by Roger Bannister
- 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…
- 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…
- When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was…
- It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
- I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I…
- Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so…
- Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill…
- My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in…
- I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with…
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