Beating John Landy Was My Defining Race.

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.

I Was Involved In Music, Acting, And Some Running, But My Firm Wish Was To Become A Doctor. That Was The Formative Age When I Had Decided On The Pattern Of My Career.

We Run, Not Because We Think It Is Doing Us Good, But Because We Enjoy It And Cannot Help Ourselves...the More Restricted Our Society And Work Become, The More Necessary It Will Be To Find Some Outlet For This Craving For Freedom. No One Can Say, 'you Must Not Run Faster Than This, Or Jump Higher Than That.' The Human Spirit Is Indomitable.

Our House Was Bombed, And The Roof Fell In. We Were Sitting Under The Stairs Of The Basement, And We Were Quite Safe, But It Brought Home The Realization. In Two Nights 400 People Were Killed In Small Town.

It's Amazing That More People Have Climbed Mount Everest Than Have Broken The 4-minute Mile.