'Roger Bannister' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Bannister, Roger Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Olympic Torch Concert Live

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Back to the 1950s

  2004, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Four Minute Mile

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of Olympic Glory

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones

  1988, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Bad Loser

  1977, role: actor , character name: Ken
• Play in Full Screen Four Minute Fever

  1956, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Roger Bannister:

"I leapt at the tape like a man taking his last spring to save himself from the chasm that threatens to engulf him."

"It has been a life-long pursuit for me, ... Running is an affair of youth. It helps you through adolescence and, for me of course, at a certain point it opened doors. I met people, and traveled. Of course it can make life more exciting and fulfilling."

"I don't attach the importance to it as a lot of other people do,"

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful will win."

"If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten."

"The mile has all the elements of drama."

"The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed."

"Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead."

"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record."

"Athletics is a luxury."

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

"I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello."

"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."

"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."