Roger Bannister Quotes

• Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.

  Roger Bannister

  Mean, Impossible

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• El hombre que pueda llegar más lejos una vez que el esfuerzo sea doloroso es el hombre que ganará.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Success, Fitness

  "The Spirituality Of Running" by Jim Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2016.

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• Corremos, no porque creamos que nos hace bien, sino porque nos divierte y no podemos evitarlo... Cuanto más restringidas se vuelvan nuestra sociedad y nuestro trabajo, más necesario será encontrar alguna salida a este ansia de libertad. Nadie puede decir: 'No debes correr más rápido que esto, o saltar más alto que aquello'. El espíritu humano es indomable.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivación, Deportes, Correr

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• Los médicos y los científicos decían que era imposible superar la milla en cuatro minutos, que uno moriría en el intento. Por eso, cuando me levanté de la pista tras desplomarme en la línea de meta, pensé que estaba muerto.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Doctors, Track

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• It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.

  Roger Bannister

  Heart, Brain, Critical

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• 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.

  Roger Bannister

  Leadership, Sports, Running

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• Entrenaba menos de tres cuartos de hora, quizá cinco días a la semana, no tenía tiempo para más. Pero se trataba de calidad, no de cantidad, así que no perdía el tiempo haciendo footing, nunca.

  Roger Bannister

  Quality Not Quantity, Jogging, Three

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• Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.

  Roger Bannister

  Mind, Results, Concentration

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• El deporte, como toda la vida, consiste en arriesgarse.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Risk

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• 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.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Giving Up, Able

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• Corremos, no porque pensemos que nos hace bien, sino porque nos divierte y no podemos evitarlo

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Thinking, Training

  Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press

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• 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.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Moving, Mean

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• 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.

  Roger Bannister

  Beauty, Dream, Unity

  Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.9, The History Press

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• The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Essence, Important

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• The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

  Roger Bannister

  Loss, Men, Goes On

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• Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Fighting, Race

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• 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 champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

  Roger Bannister

  Deporte, Atleta, Pensamiento

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• I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.

  Roger Bannister

  Legs, Toes, Break

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• If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Men, Blame

  Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.41, The History Press

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• Quería ser neurólogo. Me parecía el aspecto más difícil, más intrigante y más importante de la medicina, que tenía vínculos con la psicología, la agresividad, el comportamiento y los asuntos humanos.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Medicine

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• Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

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• 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.

  Roger Bannister

  Deportes, Correr, Atleta

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Dublin, Ireland, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

  Roger Bannister

  People, Broken, Climbing Mount Everest

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• 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 realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Home

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• 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 keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Pain

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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