Sebastian Coe Quotes
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.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.
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I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
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I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.
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Compared to running apps on a smartphone or, more aptly, an iPad, the app experience on the Samsung Chromebook Plus is distinctly subpar.
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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.
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All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
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The process is so complicated that it offers ever so many occasions for running abnormally.
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The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.
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You have to work at everything. You've got to make it work.
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Man is bound to lie about himself.
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I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.
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I think that the dehumanization of another person can happen in the matter of an instant.
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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.
