Four Minute Mile Quotes

#1. The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

Irving Stone

#2. Doctors and scientists said 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

Roger Bannister

#3. The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'

Joshua Foer

#4. It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slamdunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

Irving Stone

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

Kenneth H. Cooper

#6. Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

Byron Nelson

#7. The path to hell is an easy one.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#9. It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

Barbara De Angelis

#10. As Mother Teresa once said, you will only ever have trust.

Jeff Goins

#11. This is how the rain becomes a flood. One drop at a time.

Jay Kristoff

#12. You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

John Travolta

#13. I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East ... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect [audiences] with contemporary life through the technology we have now.

Mariko Mori

#14. Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.

Philip K. Dick

#15. I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

Natalie Gulbis

#16. I've a devil of a habit for being right.

Catherynne M Valente

#17. Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht

#18. Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.

John Wooden

#19. Which lady would I like to meet? Um, I don't know that there's anybody left that I didn't meet. But the one that I really wanted to meet died and that was Princess Diana. I really wanted to get to know her. I like her.

Morgan Freeman

#20. When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of sudden you're in the third act of the book and in this very dark and claustrophobic place.

Moshe Kasher