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Roger Bannister has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps…
• If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen…
• 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,…
• It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast,…
• Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up…
• The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that.…
• The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally…
• Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

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