Roger Bannister - The First Four Minutes (1955)

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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.

Roger Bannister

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.

Roger Bannister

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

Roger Bannister

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

Roger Bannister