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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Sports life is very short.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

My jump was imperfect, my run-in was too short and my hands were too far back at takeoff. When I manage to iron out these faults, I am sure I can improve.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

I've been incredibly blessed with good roles the past few years, but none of them compares to the experience of playing Ellsworth on 'Deadwood.' There are times when I've had as much fun or had comparably great material, but as a body of work, playing Ellsworth tops anything else in my lifetime.

My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water.

My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'

I sleep with my baby blanket, Kiki, that my nana made for me.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

Immortals, hear, said Jove, and cease to jar! Tea must succeed to Wine as Peace to War. Nor by the grape let man be set at odds, but share in Tea, the nectar of the Gods.

In one way or another, everybody has this experience in their lives... the moment when you have to define your relationship to family and how your family's made you who you are, whether you've spent your life running from your family or deeply connected to your family.

I've always identified with the misfits.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

I'm in Delta Delta Delta, otherwise known as Tri-Delta. I've developed some great friendships, and it's enabled me to have a little bit more of a normal college experience.

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

It's our children who teach us how to be parents.

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

It's nice to come back for visits. 'General Hospital' is my home.