Sebastian Coe Quotes (27 Quotes)



    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.

    This represents a significant saving of public funds and we will strive to bring the same discipline to the financing of the games,

    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.



    Doing as much as we can in the critical early years of the Olympic planning cycle will ensure that London and the U.K. get the best possible long-term benefits from the new Olympic facilities and services,

    I think it is an appropriate time to be reminding people that eight weeks ago we landed the biggest prize in sport and reminding the thousands of Londoners and people throughout the UK that helped us. We couldn't have got across the line without them.

    It's just the most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of in British sport. This was the most splendid team performance,


    The Cabinet was a very important staging post for us

    This city provides a wonderful global platform to promote the Olympic movement particularly to a young audience.

    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.

    Like the other bidding cities, we will be our making final efforts to communicate the essential message of the London bid, ... We arrived here early to allow us to focus on finalizing our presentation. This has been a good opportunity to finalize the scripts, to take a further look at our visual material and to arrive in the centre of Singapore refreshed and better able to focus on the conversations we need to have.

    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.

    Don't expect to see an Olympic Stadium up after Christmas, but don't also be lulled into believing nothing is happening because right at this moment, construction is underway. Work has started and it's started very quickly.

    From our initial observations, our hard work has paid off. This is a springboard for the next 30 days. We are in good shape to take the battle even harder and further towards our goal of bringing the Olympic Games to London in 2012.

    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.

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

    We really want the Games, this is our third time trying.

    Overhearing this, the former head of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, replied, Who was that, Coe ... Since he got the Games, he's been making friends with everyone.

    Sport is a bridgehead into any number of things we want. It's not going to be enough to sit there in 2012 saying we didn't get any medals but got lots of social outcomes. I hope in light of what comes out of here UK Athletics will make some tough judgments.

    We have worked through a comprehensive agenda in a spirit of partnership and cooperation. We could not have started on a better footing.

    Coe, a knighted exemplar of measured eloquence, does not giggle and break into giddy trot lightly. It isn't properly British. But then the British capital hadn't won the Olympics since 1948 before it defeated a loaded field of major world cities Wednesday Paris, Madrid, New York and Moscow. Sorry, ... Have to catch my mates and have some fun.

    The international people tell us that we are taken seriously and that there is a momentum.

    We must all face up to these challenges and all sporting bodies must work and plan together to get these structures right, ... I will not rest until we have hosted a great Games providing a platform for a top performing Great Britain team.

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

    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 l


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