Seb Coe:
Whenever I’m challenged on the role of the sponsors and the suppliers and all of our commercial partners, the answer is very easy. We would not be doing this without you.

Jonathan Edwards:
Right at the heart of London 2012 was the desire to get things right for the athletes, and our suppliers have a really important role to play in that.

Tanni Grey-Thompson:
There’s very little difference whether you talk about suppliers or athletes or whoever it is who is part of the Games – we all have to do our bit to make sure it the best Games it can possibly be.

Chris Townsend:
We can’t deliver this project without our sponsors and our suppliers. We cannot do it alone; we are going to rely on working in partnership with these 500 very special companies.

Doug Arnot:
We’ve got to be talking to each other, we’ve got to be looking to see how we can help one another, and we’ve got to understand that the extended London 2012 team is a very, very large team – and we need every member.

Paul Deighton:
I think for the suppliers they are really just part of our family. We have to understand that our deadlines are absolutely immovable, that the eyes of the world are upon this country, and it’s the time in our lives when we have to do our best work.

John Amaechi:
We’ve really tried to encourage every supplier to understand that Diversity and Inclusion is not a bolt on, it’s not something you add on afterwards, but that it runs through.

Stephen Frost:
I think we are trying to walk the talk at LOCOG and London 2012 so we are asking our suppliers and our sponsors to do the same. I think between us we can achieve some really quite ground-breaking stuff.

Julian Lindfield:
It’s about making sure that every contract and supplier we’ve got is also taking a leadership role. We’ve all got an obligation to look out for each other in terms of health and safety.

Deborah Meaden:
Good business is sustainable, and sustainability should be working through the heart and through the life light of every single business. The sustainability is just about doing the right thing.

David Stubbs:
The Games are here once in our lifetime, so it’s a unique opportunity to do sustainability at an unprecedented scale.

Tanni Grey-Thompson:
They need to use the Games as a massive positive opportunity to learn, and do better, and do things differently themselves.

Doug Arnot:
The pride that the people within the companies have, the pride that their own workforce has in having been part of London 2012, will be enormous.

Jonathan Edwards:
For all the companies involved here in delivering the Games, that’s going to look good on their CV and great for future business.

Deborah Meaden:
This is it! The eyes of the world are going to be on us, and we just need to be ready to give them out message: we are actually very good at what we do and make some great stuff.

Lizzie Armitstead:
I managed to visit my old primary school last week and spend a day with some kids. They were just so enthusiastic and excited, and there was definitely a buzz surrounding the Olympics.

Doug Arnot:
This really, like a lot of things in sport, becomes a game of inches, and it becomes detail, and it becomes getting it all absolutely nailed, so we finish as well as we’ve worked to date. 

Chris Townsend:
You have to deliver on time, on schedule, on budget. You don’t get a second chance for the Olympic Games.

Seb Coe:
We’re in good shape, not said with any complacency at all.

John Amaechi:
It’s crunch time for the athletes and for the suppliers, it’s time to really make sure that everything comes together perfectly.