"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."

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Source : "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Dublin, Ireland, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

Roger Bannister

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“So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.”
“...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.”
“I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.”
“Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.”
“Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.”
“I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved.”
“Tatted like a Mexican, fresher than a freshman.”
“I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.”

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