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Which Quotes by Roger Bannister
- 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, which had links…
- My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it…
- 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…
- Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing…
- I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to…
- I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won…
- 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…
- My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something…
- 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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