Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

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.

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.

To be alive on the planet is to surrender to being her partner. To be in service of the Earth is to be enraptured by her.

Everything we do in life is creating everything that’s coming. Our thoughts and our words become things manifest in our lives. Each time my Master sent me to the right place at the right time.

There is no security no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago we will do it again. Actually every time we begin we wonder how we ever did it before.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.

The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.