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" 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
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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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" 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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" 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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" I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of. "
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" There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side. "
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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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Know
You
" I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish. "
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Grandfather
" I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative. "
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Think
Than
" Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing. "
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Giving
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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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Me
Great
" My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar. "
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Mother
Grandparents
" 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. "
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Horse
Me
Golf
" 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
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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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Will
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" 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 the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside. "
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" 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
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You
" 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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Change
" Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan. "
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Man
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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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" 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. "
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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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