Sergei Bubka Quotes
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The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.
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You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
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Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.
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The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen.
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I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.
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I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.
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And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.
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The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
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I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.
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I began with track and field because this is what I know.
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I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.
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Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
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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.
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I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
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First do it, then say it.
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People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
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I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches
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My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.
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