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Miles Quotes by Roger Bannister
- 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…
- 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.
- Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a…
- Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a…
- It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
- I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.
- It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
- May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is…
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- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
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- It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. — Dave Barry
- Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. — Dave Barry
- Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. — Dave Barry
- Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. — Thomas Beecham
- I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
- We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of… — Justin Bieber
- The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But… — Buffalo Bill