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
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.
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.
motivational success fitness
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
legs toes break
I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.
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.
sports athlete opportunity
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 countryside.
quality-not-quantity jogging three
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 quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.
sports running athlete
It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.
holiday lakes house
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.