Top 100 Quotes About Coe
#1. I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#2. Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream
Ron Pickering
#3. I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.
Daley Thompson
#4. Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier
Ron Pickering
#5. The House of Winter - such a happy family are we. - Coe
Andrea Cremer
#6. My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
Penn Jillette
#8. I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.
Sebastian Coe
#9. Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
Sebastian Coe
#10. If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
David Allan Coe
#11. I think I'm probably just an old-fashioned Tory. I don't wake up each morning trying to figure out what kind of Conservative I am; for me it's quite instinctive.
Sebastian Coe
#12. I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.
Jonathan Coe
#13. If Alice had a post-engagement policy, it was to pass.
Alexis Coe
#14. But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
Jonathan Coe
#15. This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual
Sebastian Coe
#16. 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.
Sebastian Coe
#17. 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.
Sebastian Coe
#18. 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.
Sebastian Coe
#19. I still run every other day. Longer at weekends. I probably do 35 miles a week.
Sebastian Coe
#20. My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track.
Sebastian Coe
#21. My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that.
Sebastian Coe
#22. I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.
Jonathan Coe
#23. Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
Sebastian Coe
#24. I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.
Sebastian Coe
#25. Nigga couldn't tell the truth if there was a gun to his head.
Coe Booth
#26. In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place.
Alexis Coe
#27. 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.
Sebastian Coe
#28. Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.
Jonathan Coe
#29. 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
#30. Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book ... That list grows and changes as I do more and more research. But when I've answered the bulk of the questions, I begin to write ...
David B. Coe
#31. I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.
Sebastian Coe
#32. Besh grinned. Only a fool would choose to justify himself by likening his actions to those of a bigger fool.
David B. Coe
#33. At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.
Sebastian Coe
#34. Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
David Allan Coe
#35. Yes, she would have been partial to men, perhaps she might even have confined herself to one man in particular, if only she had been able to find one who shared her view that intimacy between two people was of value irrespective of whether it led to sticky conflux.
Jonathan Coe
#36. If you have worry, you don't have faith, and if you have faith, you don't have worry.
Jack Coe
#37. Freedom cannot be given ... It can only be taken away.
David Allan Coe
#38. I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day.
Sebastian Coe
#39. But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
Jonathan Coe
#40. 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
#42. 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.
Sebastian Coe
#43. I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.
Sebastian Coe
#44. 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.
Sebastian Coe
#45. I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.
Jonathan Coe
#46. Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
Jonathan Coe
#47. The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her. Faith, Hope and Brenda.
Jonathan Coe
#48. What often appears to destroy us is what eventually defines us and takes us to a better place.
Mike Coe
#49. Live life as it was meant to be lived. Half asleep, preferably.
[...]
She preferred [...] to go to sleep at once, sleep now being one of the very few aspects of existence for which she felt any degree of enthusiasm [...]
Jonathan Coe
#50. Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.
David Allan Coe
#51. Half an hour later, as I was deeply immersed in the story of The Man of the Hill, that curious, lengthy digression which seems to have nothing to do with the main narrative but is in fact its cornerstone..
Jonathan Coe
#52. There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.
Jonathan Coe
#53. Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.
Jack Coe
#54. The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.
Jonathan Coe
#55. We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.
Sebastian Coe
#56. Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.
Sebastian Coe
#57. I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
David Allan Coe
#58. 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.
Sebastian Coe
#59. Can you make her out at all?'
Benjamin shrugged. As usual, in Cicely's presence, he was afraid of appearing inarticulate, and as usual, this fear robbed him of his power of speech.
Jonathan Coe
#60. Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.
Sebastian Coe
#61. This is the crazed, manic energy of the bull at the end of the fight, fatally wounded but ploughing ahead, driven only by pain and anger and the mindless will to go on living.
Jonathan Coe
#62. 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
#63. The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.
Sebastian Coe
#64. I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day ... If I don't make it a routine and treat it like a job, I'd never get anything done.
David B. Coe
#65. For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.
Jonathan Coe
#67. As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.
Jonathan Coe
#68. I don't mind summer rain. In fact I like it. It's my favourite sort.' 'Your favourite sort of rain?' said Thea. I remember that she was frowning, and pondering these words, and then she announced: 'Well, I like the rain before it falls.
Jonathan Coe
#69. But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
Jonathan Coe
#70. Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we dont see her much on the political landscape in this country, shes kind of disappeared and she doesnt speak out much anymore.
Jonathan Coe
#71. His thoughts-if you can use that word about a dog, particularly one as stupid as Bonaparte-were simply fixed, with absolute determination, upon the distant horizon, and he was not going to stop until he had reached it.
Jonathan Coe
#72. I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of Manchester United by me is seen as biased.
Sebastian Coe
#73. It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.
Jonathan Coe
#74. The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.
David B. Coe
#75. The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.
Sebastian Coe
#76. [ ... ] words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say [ ... ]
Jonathan Coe
#77. It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
David Allan Coe
#78. 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.
Sebastian Coe
#79. 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.
Sebastian Coe
#80. My motivation to compete was always about improving one year to the next. At 34, I realised I'd never run any quicker, so why hang on? But I love running and still run along woodland trails and beaches every few days.
Sebastian Coe
#81. There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing.
Sebastian Coe
#82. Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
Sebastian Coe
#83. My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.
Sebastian Coe
#84. You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
Jonathan Coe
#85. Don't you know what a pussy is, sir?'
'Of course he doesn't. He hasn't even seen Basic Instinct.
Jonathan Coe
#86. With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn ... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding together and seeming coherent ... Each presents unique challenges and opportunities.
David B. Coe
#87. I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish.
Sebastian Coe
#88. The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be ...
David B. Coe
#89. The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.
Sebastian Coe
#90. It was possible to love life, without loving your life.
Christopher Coe
#91. 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
#92. If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.
Sebastian Coe
#93. In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it.
Sebastian Coe
#94. Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
David Allan Coe
#95. I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.
Sebastian Coe
#96. Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing.
Sebastian Coe
#97. As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
Jonathan Coe
#98. 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
#99. Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.
Jonathan Coe
#100. In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.
Sebastian Coe
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