Defining Quote by Roger Bannister Download Open image “Beating John Landy was my defining race.” — Roger Bannister ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defining Race Racism
This race is not about me trying to beat John Lewis. It is about carrying the torch and picking up the fight. — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds. — Bonnie Blair Copy Share Image
The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team. — Dale Earnhardt Copy Share Image
I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals. — Hermann Maier Copy Share Image
I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was… — Roberto Duran Copy Share Image
I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me! — Valentino Rossi Copy Share Image
I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning. — Patrick McHenry Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
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… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
“There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.” — Thomas B Dowd Copy Share Image
The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal,… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard -… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
