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It still seems strange to me that the intrinsically simple and unimportant act of placing one foot in the front of the other as fast as possible for 1,760 yards was heralded as such an important sporting achievement.
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The earth seemed almost to move with me.... I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.
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We run, not only because we think it is doing us good, but … because it helps us to do other things better.
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Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.
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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.
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If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.
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If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.
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Roger Bannister
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Born:
March 23, 1929
Died:
March 3, 2018
(aged 88)
Bio:
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister was an English former middle-distance athlete, physician and academic, who ran the first sub-four-minute mile.
Known for:
The First Four Minutes (1955)
The Four Minute Mile (1955)
Twin Tracks: The Autobiography (2014)
Four-Minute Mile
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