Bubka Quotes

#1. Don't come at me with logic," I hissed at him. "We're way past that. We've been through too much crap to be sensible.

Stacey Marie Brown

#2. Sports life is very short.

Sergei Bubka

#3. High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

Philip Sidney

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

Sergei Bubka

#5. My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

Sergei Bubka

#6. It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired.

Edward Said

#7. Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Archie Panjabi

#8. First do it, then say it.

Sergei Bubka

#9. Boy," said Anastasia, "you know what I wish? I wish that everybody who loved each other would die at exactly the same time. Then nobody would ever have to miss anyone."

"Well," said her father slowly, "it just doesn't work that way. It just doesn't seem to work that way very often.

Lois Lowry

#10. My boyfriends going to college so I made him tattoo my name on his foot so I know he's mine

IU

#11. The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

Sergei Bubka

#12. 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.

Sergei Bubka

#13. I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

Sergei Bubka

#14. What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

Sergei Bubka

#15. Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.

Sam Owen

#16. 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.

Sergei Bubka

#17. You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

Sergei Bubka

#18. I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

Sergei Bubka

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

Sergei Bubka

#20. 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.

Sergei Bubka

#21. I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.

Sergei Bubka

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

Sergei Bubka

#23. The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#24. If in sports you have a life cycle for 10 or 15 years, in fashion, you have no cycle; you're in it forever as long as you stay healthy. And I want to be in it forever.

Peter Nygard

#25. It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Albus Dumbledore

J.K. Rock

#26. People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

Sergei Bubka

#27. Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Virat Kohli

#28. The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

Sergei Bubka

#29. Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important.

Sergei Bubka

#30. 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 this day. The club and school exist.

Sergei Bubka

#31. I began with track and field because this is what I know.

Sergei Bubka

#32. Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

Sergei Bubka

#33. I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

Sergei Bubka

#34. Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.

Sergei Bubka