Roger Bannister Quotes

• 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

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  Tags in Top, School, Nobody

• 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

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  Tags in Adolescent, Adjusted, Trying, Feeling

• 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

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  Tags in Aerobic, Part, Run, Fast

• I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

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• Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn’t work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

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  Tags in Cotton, Mill, School

• 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.

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  Tags in Considerable, Run, School

• My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

  Roger Bannister

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  Tags in Social, Students, Core, Came, School

• I couldn’t disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn’t race again within another 10 days.

  Roger Bannister

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  Tags in Within, Exhaust, Disappoint, Another

• I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

  Roger Bannister

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• If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

  Roger Bannister

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  Tags in Adventurous, Keen

• 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.

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Roger Bannister (31)

Birth:	23rd March, 1929
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Athlete

About

Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister is an English former athlete best known for running the first mile in less than 4 minutes.
In the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Bannister set a British record in the 1500 metres, but did not win the medal he expected. This humiliation strengthened his resolve to be the first 4-minute miler.

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