Sebastian Coe Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sebastian Coe
Sebastian Coe Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
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.
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.
If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.
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.
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.
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.
I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.
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.
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.
In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it.
Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.
I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.
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.
There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing.
Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
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.
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.
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.