![]() ![]() 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 Quotes) I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello (Roger Bannister Quotes) I raced supremely well. It wasn’t until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race (Roger Bannister Quotes) I couldn’t disappoint people. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science (Roger Bannister Quotes) I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. Both of my parents had to leave education. Because it helps us to do other things better (Roger Bannister Quotes) Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn’t work. I found the mile just perfect (Roger Bannister Quotes) We run, not only because we think it is doing us good, but. (Roger Bannister Quotes) Athletics is a luxury (Roger Bannister Quotes) It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ (Roger Bannister Quotes) The mile has all the elements of a drama (Roger Bannister Quotes) Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances (Roger Bannister Quotes) I found longer races boring. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. ![]() (Roger Bannister Quotes) It’s a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. (Roger Bannister Quotes) 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. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. (Roger Bannister Quotes) Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn’t work. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending. (Roger Bannister Quotes) I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. If you don’t keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. (Roger Bannister Quotes) You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn’t waste time jogging, ever (Roger Bannister Quotes) 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. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized (Roger Bannister Quotes) I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn’t have time to do more. ![]() 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! (Roger Bannister Quotes) The Athletic Association competed against the University. 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 (Roger Bannister Quotes) I’ve always been very impatient. So that to and from school was itself a training (Roger Bannister Quotes) I wanted to be a neurologist. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn’t have any cars during the war. 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 (Roger Bannister Quotes) I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. ![]() (Roger Bannister Quotes) 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 (Roger Bannister Quotes) Life was very simple. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. What you think may happen doesn’t happen. Text Quotes 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 (Roger Bannister Quotes) The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it’s filled with reversals. ![]()
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