Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel first. The perfect… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
When I moved to Sheffield and went to a secondary modern in the Seventies, there were certain challenges: if you've got a… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative. — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window. — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling. — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage. — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing. — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
