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" 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
University
Student
Joke
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window. "
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" My motivation to compete was always about improving one year to the next. At 34, I realised I'd never run any quicker, so why hang on? But I love running and still run along woodland trails and beaches every few days. "
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" Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander. "
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" My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that. "
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Life
Young
" My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar. "
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" I think I'm probably just an old-fashioned Tory. I don't wake up each morning trying to figure out what kind of Conservative I am; for me it's quite instinctive. "
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" Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in countries that are no longer part of the federation. There is a strong argument for saying Sochi's legacy will be this country will have winter sports facilities it did not have before. "
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Sports
Winter
" When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies. "
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Jazz
Dice
Better
" I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life. "
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People
Life
Good
" I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative. "
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Think
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" We need to be confident. We need not to blink. "
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Blink
Confident
" Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing. "
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Giving
Good
" The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't like criticism, but if you are trying to shave two tenths of a second at 800 metres, that is what you crave. "
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Criticism
Better
You
" When I moved to Sheffield and went to a secondary modern in the Seventies, there were certain challenges: if you've got a name like Sebastian, you either learn to fight or to run. "
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You
Run
Challenges
" Marathons don't come to you overnight. "
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You
Overnight
" 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 sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable. "
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Feeling
Gold
Long
" I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London. "
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" Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents. "
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Parents
Father
People
" My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track. "
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Early
Life
Doing
" I still run every other day. Longer at weekends. I probably do 35 miles a week. "
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Miles
Day
" Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic. "
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Traffic
Good
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" I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day. "
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Twice
Training
" I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure. "
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Influence
Coach
Good
" 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. "
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Games
You
" There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing. "
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