"Beating John Landy was my defining race." — Roger Bannister

"Beating John Landy was my defining race."

— 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…
Athletics is a luxury.
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.

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More Beating Quotes

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I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough. — David Bailey
I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack. — Antonio Banderas
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. — Henry Ward Beecher
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that… — Ambrose Bierce
Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating… — Mary J. Blige
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the… — Phillips Brooks
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. — Samuel Butler
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. — Muhammad Ali
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. — Coco Chanel
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. — Woody Allen
I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your… — Kate Beckinsale

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