Sebastian Coe famous quotes

04-27-2025

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Motivational #Self #Track
Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment â€“ whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Athlete #Years #Careers
Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!
-- Sebastian Coe

#Running #Battle #Another Day
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.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Winning #Self #Discipline
World records are only borrowed.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Running #World #Records
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, end, a story unfolding.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Running #Waiting #Missing
I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Running #Distance #Long
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.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Believe #Long #Feelings
The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Clouds #Limitation
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Thinking #Decision #Parent
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

#Winning #Order #Leader
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Sports #Thinking #Bridges
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.
-- Sebastian Coe

#School #Exercise #People
I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Thinking #Alternatives #Workaholic
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

#Cities #May #Stones
We need to be confident. We need not to blink.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Needs #Be Confident #Blink
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

#Dream #Athlete #Games
The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Running #World #Nine
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.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Running #Kids #Names
I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasnâ€™t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the Games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Sports #Games #People
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 world.
-- Sebastian Coe

#World #Talent #Enough
The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind
-- Sebastian Coe

#Inspirational #Funny #Whirlwind
This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual
-- Sebastian Coe

#Usual #Unusual
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 for athletes to compete in, by showcasing London's unmatched cultural wealth and diversity and by creating a real and lasting legacy.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Sports #Real #Athlete
Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Sports #Country #Opportunity
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.
-- Sebastian Coe

#Team #Effort #Hawks

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