Roger Bannister Quotes

Roger Bannister — British Athlete born on March 23, 1929,

Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, CBE is an English former middle-distance athlete, physician and academic, who ran the first sub-four-minute mile... (wikipedia)

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

Roger Bannister Quotes

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