Roger Bannister Quotes About Running

• 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

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

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Risk

• 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

• 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

• The mile has all the elements of a drama.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Drama, Elements

• Pasar a la vanguardia significa realizar un acto que requiere fiereza y confianza. Pero el miedo debe desempeñar algún papel... no hay relajación posible, y toda discreción se echa al viento.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Moving, Mean

• 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

• I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

  Roger Bannister

  Deportes, Correr, Atleta

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

• Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes, so that I thought I would run more effectively.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Shoes

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

• I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Children

  "The Gigantic Book of Running Quotations". Book edited by Hal Higdon, 2011.

• 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.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Doctors

• I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

  Roger Bannister

  Inspiración, Deportes, Correr

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

• May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Strong, Athlete

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

• Me inicié en las carreras de atletismo a través de las carreras a campo traviesa, que no son un deporte tan popular en Estados Unidos como en Inglaterra.

  Roger Bannister

  Deportes, Correr, Campo

• 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.

• If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Arms, Would Be

  Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.123, The History Press

• El deporte no es estar entre algodones. El deporte consiste en adaptarse a lo inesperado y ser capaz de modificar los planes en el último momento. El deporte, como toda la vida, consiste en asumir riesgos.

  Roger Bannister

  Leadership, Sports, Running

• It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

• 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.

• 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

• 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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