Roger Bannister
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.Collection: Running
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, so that I thought I would run more effectively.Collection: Running
It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.Collection: Running
The mile has all the elements of a drama.Collection: Running
If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.Collection: Running
It seems quite impossible to walk in America.Collection: America
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.Collection: Holiday
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable marginCollection: Inspirational
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves.Collection: Running