Athletic Quote by 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…

— Sean Combs

The hard part is believing it can happen to you. Most likely, my runners will never achieve a 3-minute mile. I think they may…

— Gerry Lindgren

I knew what my fatal error was: After running perilously fast in lane five, I slowed down at 250 meters. I could not cover…

— Milkha Singh

I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I…

— Ken Griffey, Jr

That's impossible," Gwen gasped. "The fastest I've ever run on a treadmill was ten and a half minutes and I nearly died. And it…

— Karen Marie Moning

There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2…

— Jeff Galloway

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

— Anthony Hopkins

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…

— Roger Bannister

If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I…

— Steve Jones

Something in me wanted to find out how far I could run without stopping.

— Anonymous

“Roger Banister said his 4:03.6 mile in 1953 “made [him] realize that the four-minute mile was not out of reach.” Part of daring to…

— Patrick Bet-David

I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran to gain…

— Paul Tergat