Roger Bannister Quotes
If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.
Bannister, Roger. The Four Minute Mile. Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955, p. 195.
In 2006 the Republican Party controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency. A national debate began over illegal immigration and the Republican party was split over what to do about the 11 million illegal immigrants living and working among us and their roughly 3 million American-born children who were citizens of the United States. The Republican House and the Republican Senate were at loggerheads over two different approaches to the problem and nothing was getting done.
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister CH CBE FRCP was a British middle-distance athlete and neurologist who ran the first sub-4-minute mile.