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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

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk. — 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

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. — Jonathan 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

The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world. — 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

I still run every other day. Longer at weekends. I probably do 35 miles a week. — 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

The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her. Faith, Hope and Brenda. — Jonathan 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

If Alice had a post-engagement policy, it was to pass. — Alexis 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

Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier — Ron Pickering

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual — Sebastian Coe

Besh grinned. Only a fool would choose to justify himself by likening his actions to those of a bigger fool. — David B. Coe

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go. — David B. Coe

You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister;
The whole world called me 'Hank'! — David Allan 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

Nigga couldn't tell the truth if there was a gun to his head. — Coe Booth

Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ. — Jack Coe

[ ... ] words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say [ ... ] — 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

The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind — Sebastian 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

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels. — Jonathan 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

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. — Jonathan 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

Yes - I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly. — Jonathan 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

There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it. — 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

Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate. — David B. 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

Jesus can heal anything, anywhere, anytime, and anybody. All you have to do is put your faith in Him. — Jack 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

In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place. — Alexis 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

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is. — David Allan Coe

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. — Jonathan 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 you have worry, you don't have faith, and if you have faith, you don't have worry. — Jack 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

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners. — 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

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream — Ron Pickering

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