Distance runner Quote by Roger Bannister Download Open image “The mile has all the elements of a drama.” — Roger Bannister ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distance runner Distance running Drama Elements Marathon runners Miles Running Running training Theatre Training for a marathon
Drama must give us a view not just of what was, but of what could be. — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about. — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given. — Anonymous 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
To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death. — Toshihiko Seko Copy Share Image
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better. — Juha Vaatainen Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the same time taking a long-range view, scanning the scenery as far ahead as I can. I am, after all, a long distance runner. My time, the rank I attain, my outward appearance - all of these… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. — Bill Rodgers Copy Share Image
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born… — Jerome Drayton Copy Share Image
Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger. — Eamonn Coghlan Copy Share Image
