Sergei Bubka Quotations

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

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

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

I began with track and field because this is what I know.

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

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

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

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

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.

And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.

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

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

Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important.

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

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.

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

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.

She's still young and will grow and gain in experience.

She's a personality, not only for sports. She is very intelligent, and she's a star outside of sports.

She proved she is a great athlete in the way she performed today and in the way she keeps breaking records.

She knows the sport. She can talk to him, explain our position and find out why he is thinking like that.

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

It is not enough to be strong, you must work with your mind and be a clever person who can calculate. It's like having a small computer in your head.

I was just trying to help out. It was unexpected and a decision had to be made quickly.

We would like to have the normal procedures as at previous games. We hope and expect everything will be agreed before Turin.

We lost two sports but we did not get anyone in. This has created a lot of concerns and worries.

You must have the ability, if I may say so, to use such a high grip. You must have perfect technique. Then you can move to a higher grip.

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

First do it, then say it.

I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.