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

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.

Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage.

This is woman, if you try to hurt her, she will kills you, but if you try to satisfied her, she will make you happy!

I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

You're nothing short of my everything.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.