Sebastian Coe
Sebastian Coe
Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, CH KBE FRIBA, often referred to as Seb Coe or Lord Coe, is a British politician and former track and field athlete. As a middle-distance runner, Lord Coe won four Olympic medals, including the 1500 metres gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984. He set eight outdoor and three indoor world records in middle-distance track events – including, in 1979, setting three world records in the space of 41 days – and...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 September 1956
bad behave civil compete difference flip goes highest hurting level lose sports
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.
british dreamed fantastic opportunity splendid team
It's just the most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of in British sport. This was the most splendid team performance,
audiences city global movement olympic platform promote provides wonderful
This city provides a wonderful global platform to promote the Olympic movement particularly to a young audience.
Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.
crucial stage
It's at a crucial stage of the race,
age running twice
I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day.
cabinet post staging
The Cabinet was a very important staging post for us
anyone apart mind
The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.
beyond found people relationship understand
Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.
coach father referred relationship roles separate
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.
catch mates
Sorry. Have to catch my mates and have some fun.
blown man war
Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
age condition cope great mentally olympics physically
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.
attracts fund given opera people shake
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.