Roger Bannister
Roger Bannister
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister CBEis an English former middle-distance athlete, physician and academic, who ran the first sub-four-minute mile...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth23 March 1929
elements mile
The mile has all the elements of drama.
drive effort further gets himself man painful
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful will win.
attach importance people
I don't attach the importance to it as a lot of other people do,
chasm himself last man save spring taking tape threatens
I leapt at the tape like a man taking his last spring to save himself from the chasm that threatens to engulf him.
affair certain course exciting helps life met opened point pursuit running
It has been a life-long pursuit for me, ... Running is an affair of youth. It helps you through adolescence and, for me of course, at a certain point it opened doors. I met people, and traveled. Of course it can make life more exciting and fulfilling.
running thinking training
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.
motivational success fitness
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
leadership sports running
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.
running moving mean
To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.
sports doctors track
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead
legs toes break
I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.
running giving-up records
The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records.
unity movement conscious
No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.
running drama elements
The mile has all the elements of a drama.