"Athletics is a luxury." — Roger Bannister

"Athletics is a luxury."

— Roger Bannister

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53 Quotes by Roger Bannister

Roger Bannister has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think…
I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and…
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
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…
It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part…
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I…
The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher…
The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a…
Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking…

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More Athlete Quotes

This quote is filed under Athlete Quotes, one of 1,476 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it… — Lance Armstrong
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no… — Lance Armstrong
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say… — Tyra Banks
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think… — Roger Bannister
I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and… — Roger Bannister
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always… — Roger Bannister

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