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I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.
— Sebastian Coe
It was possible to love life, without loving your life.
— Christopher Coe
I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.
— Sebastian Coe
Take It and Like It
— Jonathan Coe
Objectivity is just male subjectivity.
— Jonathan Coe
Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.
— Jonathan Coe
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
— Sebastian Coe
I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of Manchester United by me is seen as biased.
— Sebastian Coe
What often appears to destroy us is what eventually defines us and takes us to a better place.
— Mike Coe
I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.
— Sebastian Coe
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
— Jonathan Coe
If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.
— Sebastian Coe
I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.
— Sebastian Coe
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.
— Sebastian Coe
Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!
— Sebastian Coe
The House of Winter - such a happy family are we. - Coe
— Andrea Cremer
Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing.
— Sebastian Coe
I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent.
— Sebastian Coe
The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.
— Sebastian Coe
Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.
— Sebastian Coe
Don't you know what a pussy is, sir?''Of course he doesn't. He hasn't even seen Basic Instinct. — Jonathan Coe
All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
— Sebastian Coe
Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.
— David Allan Coe
Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.
— David Allan Coe
Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.
— Sebastian Coe
Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
— Sebastian Coe
Everyone is extremely hard and troubled to be around. Everyone has something substantially wrong with them. Everyone is extremely hard to live with.
— Alain De Botton
The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.
— Sebastian Coe
We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.
— Sebastian Coe
I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.
— David Allan Coe
In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.
— David B. Coe
I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.
— Sebastian Coe
Am I the same person that I dream about?
— Jonathan Coe
I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.
— David B. Coe
Besh grinned. Only a fool would choose to justify himself by likening his actions to those of a bigger fool.
— David B. Coe
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
— Jonathan Coe
I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
— Jonathan Coe
But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.
— Jonathan Coe
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
— Jonathan Coe
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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— Jonathan Coe
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
— David Allan Coe
I don't want to go back into politics - absolutely not.
— Sebastian Coe
Freedom cannot be given ... It can only be taken away.
— David Allan Coe
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. — David Allan Coe
I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.
— Sebastian Coe
We need to be confident. We need not to blink.
— Sebastian Coe
The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.
— David Allan Coe
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
— Jonathan Coe
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
— Sebastian Coe
I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.
— Sebastian Coe
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
— Jonathan Coe
Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
— Sebastian Coe
My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.
— Sebastian Coe
I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.
— Sebastian Coe
One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.
— David Allan Coe
My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.
— David Allan Coe
Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
— David Allan Coe
I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day.
— Sebastian Coe
Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
— Sebastian Coe
There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.
— Sebastian Coe
Well, I like the rain before it falls.
— Jonathan Coe
World records are only borrowed.
— Sebastian Coe
Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.
— Jonathan Coe
The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be ...
— David B. Coe
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
— David Allan Coe
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.
— Jonathan Coe
Your pops is a real playa
— Coe Booth
I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.
— Sebastian Coe
There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing.
— Sebastian Coe
Marathons don't come to you overnight.
— Sebastian Coe
I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.
— David B. Coe
I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
— David Allan Coe
I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.
— Sebastian Coe
Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.
— Sebastian Coe