Roger Bannister Signed: “However ordinary each of us may seem...”

"However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then…even thought impossible."  -Roger Bannister Roger Gilbert Bannister born March 23, 1929, in Harrow, Middlesex, England. Bannister is the first man in history to run a mile in less than four minutes, a feat that was considered impossible in 1954. Up until he accomplished this, most people thought the four-minute mark was impossible to break. They thought the human body couldn’t physically go that fast – that it would collapse under the pressure. No-one could run a mile in less than four minutes. It was impossible. You were crazy to even try. That was, until Bannister proved everyone wrong. What was truly incredible is that once he crashed through that barrier, the rest of the world saw that it was possible, and this barrier that had stood for thousands of years, would now be broken routinely. Tony Robbins has used the story of Roger Bannister in his