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

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.

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

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

I could say the last of my doubts about taking the house vanished right there, but it wouldn’t be true. They did, however, close their suitcases and check the bus schedule.

Don't rely on good principles to sell an inferior product.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.