Roger Bannister ,quotes

I was involved in music, actin...

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

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I was playing rugby and the ot...

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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Life was very simple. My paren...

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

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May is a very early time in th...

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

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Mothers, unless they were very...

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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My athleticism was really the ...

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.

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My concentration was really on...

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

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My family actually lived in th...

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

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My introduction to track racin...

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

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Our house was bombed, and the ...

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

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The Athletic Association compe...

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

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When I was about to break a wo...

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

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You get very tired, and there ...

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.

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Your spikes, which were really...

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.

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Doctors and scientists said br...

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

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The human spirit is indomitabl...

The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records.

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The essence of sports is that ...

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

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Sport, like all of life, is ab...

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

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Our concept of a family holida...

Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the holiday.

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If I faltered, there would be ...

If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.

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