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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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My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.
~ Roger Bannister
Achievement
Becoming
Came
Concentration
Doctor
Getting
Hard
Hard Work
Important
Know
Marks
Me
Parents
Really
School
Something
University
Were
Which
Work
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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
About
Actually
Century
Family
Great
Had
Last
Last Century
Lived
People
Same
Small
Stability
Until
Village
Villages
Years
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My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
~ Roger Bannister
America
Background
Country
Cross
Cross Country
England
Introduction
Perhaps
Popular
Racing
Running
Sport
Through
Track
Which
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Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.
~ Roger Bannister
Basement
Bombed
Brought
Fell
Home
House
Nights
Our
People
Quite
Realization
Roof
Safe
Sitting
Small
Small Town
Stairs
Town
Two
Were
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The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.
~ Roger Bannister
Against
Association
Athletic
Break
Cannot
Established
Event
Organized
Records
Thing
Three
University
Unless
Whole
World
World Records
You
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
~ Roger Bannister
Drive
Effort
Further
Gets
Himself
Man
Once
Painful
Who
Will
Win
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.
~ Roger Bannister
Attractive
Beaten
Becomes
Champion
Filled
General
General Public
Happen
Many
May
Public
Reason
Sport
Think
Unknown
You
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When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.
~ Roger Bannister
About
Aside
Become
Been
Break
Career
Doctor
Generation
Had
Her
Important
Important Thing
Known
Me
Mother
Possible
Record
Say
Set
Society
Something
Sport
Thing
Used
Well
Well Known
Which
World
World Record
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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
Amount
Back
Blood
Certain
Dizzy
Fact
Get
In Fact
Keep
Legs
Muscles
Pain
Pumping
Running
Slow
Slowing
Stop
Tired
Up
Very
You
Your
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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
Catch
Down
Effectively
Filing
Get
Heavier
Long
Material
More
Quite
Really
Run
Shoe
Simply
Some
Them
Then
Thought
Track
Were
Which
Would
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But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when you need a strikeout there, in big spots. But we are very aware of that fact, that these guys put the ball in play.
~ Roger Clemens
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