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

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 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.

The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.

One must lose one's life in order to save it.

I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.

Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!

Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.