Sebastian Coe Quotes

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• 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 way.
• The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.
• Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!
• I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.
• 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, middle,…
• 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.
• World records are only borrowed.
• All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
• 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 an…
• 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…
• Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
• The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to…
• 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…
• We need to be confident. We need not to blink.
• Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the…
• This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual
• Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next…
• The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.
• It is to create the best Games the world has ever seen by unlocking the UK's unrivalled passion for sport, by delivering the best Games…
• To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a…

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