Best 29 quotes of Sebastian Coe on MyQuotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’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.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

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.

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.

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.

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

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.

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.

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.

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind

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.

The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

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.

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

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.

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

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.

We need to be confident. We need not to blink.

World records are only borrowed.