Roger Bannister Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.”

“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.”

“Beating John Landy was my defining race.”

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

“I've always been very impatient. 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!”

“I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.”

“My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.”

“My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.”

“I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.”

“The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.”