Roger Bannister Quotes

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.

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.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

I trained with a few Olympic runners and jumpers. Just to try to get a little bit faster, a little bit better. Anything I could do to try to get a little bit better and stay ahead of the competition.

I don't know if you could call me a natural-born runner.

I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn't that funny?

I used to run 800 metres for the school.

I train with track athletes, which is weird for bobsledders. I love training with track athletes because they help me work on my speed, and they give me something to cheer for during the Summer Olympics.

If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

Track and field has always interested me.

Me racist? The only race I hate is the one you have to run.

In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

I think I was in the most historical and golden era of track and field.

I've no desire to do one of those 50-mile races like the Comrades or anything like that.

Before I got into music, I studied sport and used to run for my county.

If I am running 100 yards, I should be cut. Because then I am getting beat. I do not need to be doing that. I need to be running 20, 30, 40 yards as fast as I can over and over and over at optimal energy and efficiency and speed.

When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.

I'm not a runner.

Running hills, I try to follow the Jerry Rice routine.

I want to run as fast as I can.

I enjoy my athletics, and I want to take it as far as I can.

People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.

Before, when Bolt was in the race, it was about who's going to get second. You just come and want to watch Bolt run, it's always exciting because you know he always puts on a show.