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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 35 quotes by Roger Bannister Sir Roger Bannister Sir Roger Bannister in 2009 Personal information Full name Roger Gilbert Bannister Nationality British Born (1929-03-23) 23 March 1929 (age 85) Harrow, England, United Kingdom Height 6'2" (187 cm) Weight 154 lbs (70 kg) Sport Sport Track Event(s) 800m, 1500m, Mile Achievements and titles Personal best(s) 800 metres: 1:50.7 1500 metres: 3:43.8 Mile: 3:58.8 Medal record Competitor for England and Great Britain... Read full biography of Roger Bannister → 1 2 3 Ctrl → The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. 0 I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before... → 0 I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain?... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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