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

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.

The room was filled with a strange vibe of awkwardness that I was sure could only be dissolved by kissing him again or running away.

Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

I think we deserve people who really, really love us.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.