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

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.

May you find grace to overcome self-doubt.

Never in my life did I steal a penny that didn't belong to me.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

We can have all of the best ideas in the world, but if we do not have a system to get our tasks completed, we will fail.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive.

The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not working to working.

There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.

When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

Step aside Monday, this is a job for coffee.

I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that?

I try to have a true line in every character I play.