MILE RUN QUOTES
The mile has all the elements of drama.
Sir Roger Bannister
The mile has a classic symmetry. It's a play in four acts.
John Landy
Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.
Sebastian Coe
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.
Sir Roger Bannister
I think it is bloody silly to put flowers on the grave of the 4-minute mile, now isn't it? It turns out it wasn't so much like Everest as it was like the Matterhorn; somebody had to climb it first, but I hear now they've even got a cow up it.
Harry Wilson, coach
There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine how good Jim Ryun is or how far he will go after he becomes an adult. What he did was more significant than Roger Bannister's first mile under 4 minutes.
Dyrol Burleson, after winning the Compton Invitational Mile on June 5th, 1964. Ryun, just 17, ran 3.59,0
I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.
Steve Scott, 1995, after cancer surgery
The 800 meter record, the records in the 1000, the 1500, the 5000, the relays: no one remembers them. The mile, they remember. Only the mile.
John Walker
Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.
John Landy
Jim Murray, L. A. Times columnist
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