Sergei Bubka Quotes

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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.
• First do it, then say it.
• People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
• You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
• I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
• 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…
• The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.
• Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important.
• I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.
• My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.
• I began with track and field because this is what I know.
• Sports life is very short.
• My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.
• We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to…
• Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.
• I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.
• 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…
• Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
• I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.
• What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

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