Roger Bannister quotes - page 2

Roger Bannister was an English physician and middle-distance runner, famous for being the first person to run a mile in under four minutes. His athletic achievement became an iconic moment in sports history and inspired generations of athletes. He later contributed significantly to medicine as a distinguished neurologist. Here are 38 of his quotes:

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower. (Roger Bannister)

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.

Roger Bannister

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.

Roger Bannister

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.

Roger Bannister

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

Roger Bannister

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

Roger Bannister

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

Roger Bannister

Beating John Landy was my defining race.

Roger Bannister

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

Roger Bannister

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.

Roger Bannister

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten. (Roger Bannister)

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

Roger Bannister

The mile has all the elements of drama.

Roger Bannister

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Roger Bannister

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Occupation: English Physician
Born: March 23, 1929
Died: March 3, 2018
Quotes count: 38
Wikipedia: Roger Bannister

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