Roger Bannister Quotes

You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

I've never been innocent, but I don't think I'm a bad kid! I didn't get voted prom king. I was kind of the dancer, the performer, but I was always very athletic, too.

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

I loved being a student more than being in school. I was kind of the nerd type; I was more into my career and my studies than the dances and being popular.

Like any other all-American boy, I wanted to be just thought of as popular, be well-liked, and meet a lot of cute girls.

I was one of those guys who was, I guess, socially popular in school.

I was never a nipper; I was so uncool. I was way too unfit to be a nipper.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

All I care about is what the boys at the fork of the creek think of me.

Now tell me, why am I not popular in England?

In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.

I don't really think I got the full high school experience, only because when I got to high school for the first year, it was grades 9-10. We didn't have older grades. But besides that, it was normal. It was a regular public school. We didn't have much going on. It wasn't too crazy.

I think being a Pink Lady, for me, meant that I was in the 'In Crowd.' I was one of the cooler kids.

In Oklahoma, the girls like the big football players. Girls were more interested in those guys, and I was, like, kind of a drama kid.

I've played so many games of football now, and even though it is at a higher level, at the end of the day, football is football. You are just playing with better players.