"I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want……" — Roger Bannister

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• 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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