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" I still run every other day. Longer at weekends. I probably do 35 miles a week. "
Sebastian Coe
Run
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Day
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" It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise. "
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Quality
Education
" During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year. "
Sebastian Coe
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First
Great
" I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition. "
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Did
Club
Local
" 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
" 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. "
Sebastian Coe
Always
Life
Young
" Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing. "
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Competitive
Giving
Good
" I don't want to go back into politics - absolutely not. "
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Want
Back
Go
" I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative. "
Sebastian Coe
I Am
Think
Than
" In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport. "
Sebastian Coe
Things
Write
Talk
" I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day. "
Sebastian Coe
Daily
Twice
Training
" 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. "
Sebastian Coe
Saying
Sports
Winter
" 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. "
Sebastian Coe
City
Need
London
" Marathons don't come to you overnight. "
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Come
You
Overnight
" 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. "
Sebastian Coe
Year
Why
Run
" Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm. "
Sebastian Coe
Inspirational
Need
Respect
" 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. "
Sebastian Coe
Influence
Coach
Good
" All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you. "
Sebastian Coe
How
Make
Off
" 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 pursue their sporting dreams in London. "
Sebastian Coe
Will
Them
Games
" Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something. "
Sebastian Coe
I Am
Passion
Vision
" 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 one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls. "
Sebastian Coe
Horse
Me
Golf
" Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through. "
Sebastian Coe
Me
Understanding
School
" Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine. "
Sebastian Coe
Parenting
Decision
Good
" 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
Nothing
Party
Power
" I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling. "
Sebastian Coe
Who
Three
Say
" I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday. "
Sebastian Coe
Retire
Remember
I Can
" Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal. "
Sebastian Coe
Winning
Believe
Change
" 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. "
Sebastian Coe
United
Years
Judgment
" Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing. "
Sebastian Coe
Got
Interviewing
Big
" I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk. "
Sebastian Coe
Say
Laugh
Life
" I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games. "
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Games
Great
Loved