"We run, not because we think it is……" — Roger Bannister
"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves"
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53 Quotes by Roger Bannister
Roger Bannister has 53 quotes on this site.
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think…
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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and…
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
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Athletics is a luxury.
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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
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It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part…
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Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I…
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The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher…
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The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a…
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Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.
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More Cannot Help Quotes
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When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father.…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
— Ray Bradbury
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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help…
— David Byrne
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman…
— Lord Byron
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
— Mark Twain
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You love simply because you cannot help it.
— Unknown Author
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Every time I see the sunshine in the bright blue sky, I cannot help but think how blessed I really…
— Donna Karan
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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they…
— Swami Vivekananda
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