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.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Life has a very simple plot first youre here and then youre not.

I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.

I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy.

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?

So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.

I've been very lucky because Perth has been very good to me. I've enjoyed my journey and met so many wonderful people.

The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

The great rich nation had made triumphant war, suffered enough for poignancy but not enough for bitterness - hence the carnival, the feasting, the triumph.

I am a believer in people succeeding on merit.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

I'm a big 'Star Trek' fan.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Consolidation means less equipment, less networks, and less jobs.

Obviously, I am hoping to go on and win many trophies for Spurs and for England. That's always been the aim since I was a kid, dreaming of lifting the trophy one day for them, so that's what I've got to do.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

There is nothin' like a dame.

The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

When you live in Iceland, so very far away from everything else, you have no concept that anything you do will be heard outside of Reykjavik. I still don't know how we managed it.