Roger Bannister

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.