Roger Bannister Quotes

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.

- Roger Bannister

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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. - Roger Bannister

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. I thought I would run more effectively. - Roger Bannister

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! - Roger Bannister