I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches

First do it, then say it.

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

I don't duck or dodge anybody.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain

I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

I've always enjoyed hitting things as hard as I can. It's fun to hit things and watch them fly.

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.

If I end up showering first, I shower really quickly for the sake of the other tired members.

I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.