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"The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion."
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"Football said,"Why I am not a cricket ball to get a shot from Sachin"."
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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."
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"Sachin is passionate for cricket and fame is passionate for Sachin."
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"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
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"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."
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"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
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"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."
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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"
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"Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing."
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Explore more quotes by Roger Bannister
"My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did."
Acceptance
"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."
Thought
"I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy."
People
"Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury."
Life
"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."
Sports
"I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running."
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"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."
Environment
"I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs."
Education
"The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion."
Sports
"My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages."
Family
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