Sergei Bubka Quotes

#1. First do it, then say it.

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#2. I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.

Tracey Ullman

#3. The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food. Wherever food was plentiful, thither man has travelled to make his home. - Page 22

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#4. Sports life is very short.

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#5. It's nice that psychedelic music is kind of a buzzword. When I started with Vincent Black Shadow, stoner-rock was getting big, but it was more of a riff-oriented thing. Now people are starting to get into the 60's-Pink Floyd-acid-pop viewpoint.

Mike Romano

#6. If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine.

Ray Charles

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

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#9. Oh, thank god. I saw you both on the ground & I thought you killed each other

Alexandra Bracken

#10. Being out here in the country and having acres of land, you can go outside naked if you want.

Matt Hardy

#11. Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

Sinead O'Connor

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

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

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

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#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.

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#17. 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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#18. 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.

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

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#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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#27. This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

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#29. I can't sleep at night, imagining all the horrible things that could happen. This isn't Pandora's Box. It's Pandora's Nuclear Launch Codes.

Dennis Kunders

#30. 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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#31. There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plane and then I'd be on the 'Nurse Jackie' set. I was going from Vancouver to New York every three days. For me, it was really invigorating.

Peter Facinelli

#32. She would like to be on a train named Nightfall going to some place where she'd be twenty-five years old.

Dawn Powell

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

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

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