Roger Bannister Quotes
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Roger Bannister Quotes & Sayings
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Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.
— Roger Bannister
Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.
— Roger Bannister
If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.
— Roger Bannister
Reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.
— John Wooden
I am a single mother - that is the reality.
— Emilia Fox
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
The mile has all the elements of a drama.
— Roger Bannister
The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.
— Roger Bannister
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
— Roger Bannister
I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.
— Roger Bannister
...the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high productivity.
— William W. Lewis
I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.
— Roger Bannister
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
— Roger Bannister
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.
— Roger Bannister
It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.
— Roger Bannister
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Beating John Landy was my defining race.
— Roger Bannister
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
— Roger Bannister
It seemed to me the perfect company for the 21st century would be one that was technology-orientated with great content and national scale.
— Brian L. Roberts
The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Athletics is a luxury.
— Roger Bannister
