I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.
From Sebastian Coe
I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.
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.
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.
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.
I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.
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.
Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.
You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside.
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.
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