Minute Mile Quotes
11 quotes by 9 authors
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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
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Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.
— Byron Nelson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.
— Jessye Norman
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You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.
— Kenneth H. Cooper
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It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
— Roger Bannister
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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
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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: