Minute Mile Quotes

11 quotes by 9 authors

• 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… — Roger Bannister
• Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile. — Byron Nelson
• It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute… — Stephen King
• 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… — Roger Bannister
• I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and… — Steve Scott
• The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute.… — Joshua Foer
• I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing. — Jessye Norman
• You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile. — Kenneth H. Cooper
• It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. — Roger Bannister
• I am a marathon runner. I ran the New York City marathon and almost died. I tried to run, like, a two-minute mile early on… — Sean Combs
• Doctors and scientists said that cutting the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I cut my, more than… — My Mind Can Speak On It's Own

Who Wrote These Minute Mile Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 11 Minute Mile Quotes as follows:

• 3 Minute Mile Quotes by Roger Bannister
• 1 Minute Mile Quote by Sean Combs
• 1 Minute Mile Quote by My Mind Can Speak On It's Own
• 1 Minute Mile Quote by Byron Nelson
• 1 Minute Mile Quote by Stephen King
• 1 Minute Mile Quote by Steve Scott
• 1 Minute Mile Quote by Joshua Foer
• 1 Minute Mile Quote by Jessye Norman
• 1 Minute Mile Quote by Kenneth H. Cooper