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Athletics is a luxury.
~ Roger Bannister
Athletics
Luxury
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I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.
~ Roger Bannister
About
Also
Any
Appeared
Came
Great
I Came
Make
Mark
Origin
Privilege
Race
Say
Simple
Until
Wanted
Without
Would
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I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.
~ Roger Bannister
Again
Another
Because
Days
Did
Disappoint
Exhaust
Fail
Kind
Little
Myself
People
Race
Runner
Trained
Want
Who
Within
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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
~ Roger Bannister
Cello
Enjoy
Horn
Instruments
Me
Move
Singing
Truly
Trumpet
Which
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I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.
~ Roger Bannister
Boring
Found
Just
Longer
Mile
Perfect
Races
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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.
~ Roger Bannister
Another
Any
Car
Ever
Hill
Itself
Lived
Nobody
School
Top
Training
War
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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
Because
Been
Before
Climbing
Ever
Fed
Fed Up
Feeling
Felt
Fitted
Had
Might
Perhaps
Running
Supremely
Three
Up
Weeks
Well
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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.
~ Roger Bannister
Adjusted
Adolescent
Environment
Feeling
Find
His
I Think
Meet
Perfectly
Place
Think
Trying
Universal
Who
Your
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.
~ Roger Bannister
Affairs
Aggression
Aspect
Behavior
Difficult
Had
Human
Human Affairs
Important
Intriguing
Links
Medicine
Most
Neurologist
Psychology
Seemed
The Most Important
Wanted
Which
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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
Always
Because
Bundle
Child
Easy
Energy
Great
Instead
Lot
Me
Pain
People
Pleasure
Run
Running
Walking
Which
Would
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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
Acting
Age
Become
Career
Decided
Doctor
Firm
Formative
Had
Involved
Music
Pattern
Running
Some
Wish
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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.
~ Roger Bannister
Children
Considerable
English
English School
Event
Games
Margin
Other
Playing
Races
Rugby
Run
School
School Children
Were
Which
Won
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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
Age
Always
Awful
Back
Been
Bit
Boring
Found
Frankly
Having
I Can
Impatient
Life
Looking
Looking Back
Now
Remember
Seems
Should
Things
Thought
Up
Very
War
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.
~ Roger Bannister
Activity
Adventurous
Always
Climb
Countryside
Go
Keen
Loved
Mountain
Opportunity
Some
Would
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It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
~ Roger Bannister
Always
Been
British
Had
Hold
Mile
Preoccupation
Record
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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
Aerobic
Another
Available
Energy
Fast
Four
Minutes
More
Over
Overall
Part
Pay
Price
Question
Run
Slower
Slowly
Spreading
Time
Too
You
Your
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Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
~ Roger Bannister
Bleak
Come
England
Expectation
Fairly
Had
Hard-Working
Life
Luxury
North
Parents
Part
Rugged
Simple
Very
Which
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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
Bad
Because
Cannot
Early
Fast
Makes
May
Mile
Race
Run
Running
Strong
Time
Very
Weather
Wind
Year
You
Your
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Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
~ Roger Bannister
Both
Cotton
Domestic
Education
Had
Leave
Mill
Mother
Mothers
Parents
Poor
Science
She
Some
Took
Training
Unless
Until
Very
Were
Work
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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
Acceptance
Background
Because
Came
Core
Days
Did
More
Number
Overwhelming
Public
Public School
Really
School
Social
Social Acceptance
Students
Than
Those
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