Bubka Quotes & Sayings

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

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages! — Sergei Bubka

The unbearable silliness of English newspapers from about 1900 onward has had two main causes. One is that nearly the whole of the Press is in the hands of a few very big capitalists who are interested in the continuance of capitalism and therefore in preventing the public from learning to think; the other is that peacetime newspapers live off advertisements for consumption goods, building societies, cosmetics and the like, and are therfore interested in maintaining a "sunshine mentality" which will induce people to spend money. Optimism is good for trade, and more trade means more advertisements. Therefore, don't let people know the facts about the political and economic situation; divert their attention to giant pandas, channel swimmers, royal weddings and other soothing topics. — George Orwell

Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses. — Sergei Bubka

Sports life is very short. — Sergei Bubka

First do it, then say it. — Sergei Bubka

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. — Sergei Bubka

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

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough. — Sergei Bubka

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

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

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic. — Olivier Theyskens

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

I began with track and field because this is what I know. — Sergei Bubka

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want. — Sergei Bubka

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club. — Sergei Bubka

My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids. — Burt Ward

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region. — Sergei Bubka

I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art. — Kailash Kher

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream. — Sergei Bubka

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

But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it? — Umberto Eco

But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them. — Lesley Howarth

It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on. — Rian Johnson

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved. — Sergei Bubka

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. — William Tecumseh Sherman

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

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

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen. — Sergei Bubka

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything. — Sergei Bubka

Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important. — Sergei Bubka

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day. — Sergei Bubka