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" 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
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing. "
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" 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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" Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young. "
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" I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling. "
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" 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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" I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody to move at the same pace, and that's probably not massively endearing. "
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" The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front. "
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" I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative. "
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" 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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" I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday. "
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" Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing. "
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" 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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" I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world. "
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" I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship. "
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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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" In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it. "
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Athlete
First
Congress
" Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of. "
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Language
" 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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" World records are only borrowed. "
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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. "
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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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" I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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
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Doing
" 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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" 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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