Olympic gold Quotes by Sebastian Coe

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me…

— Sebastian Coe

Marathons don't come to you overnight.

— Sebastian Coe

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning,…

— Sebastian Coe

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the…

— Sebastian Coe

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

— Sebastian Coe

I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.

— Sebastian Coe

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

— Sebastian Coe

I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.

— Sebastian 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 believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as…

— Sebastian Coe

Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.

— Sebastian Coe

You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is…

— Sebastian Coe

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

— Sebastian Coe

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of…

— Sebastian Coe

Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of…

— Sebastian Coe