First do it, then say it.

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

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 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.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.

This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.