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

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

You must remember that God’s call upon your life is not an accident

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

What a strange turn of events.

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.