Quotes Roger Bannister

Athletics is a luxury....

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privileg...

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exh...

I did lose my sight for a bit because I was crowded in. Ever...

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are...

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect....

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top...

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it...

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to fi...

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most dif...

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead o...

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my fi...

I was playing rugby and the other games English school child...

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found l...

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go b...

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile...

It was fortunate for me that the pathway of record breaking,...

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic a...

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of ...

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usua...

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my...

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, bec...

My concentration was really on getting to university and bec...

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 y...

My introduction to track racing was through the background o...