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

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.

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

I don't really live anywhere.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

At the end of the day, Americans know that the ones they really can trust, in all the Middle East, it's only Israel.

Every rugby player in Australia and New Zealand or wherever they are from wants to play in the World Cup, and I am no different.

If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations.

Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the Family.' Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, 'McMillan and Wife' and 'Columbo.'

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience there is no karma greater than a man listening to himself Since an intention precedes action it should be the reference point for any action.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assums ten different positions in a day.

Karl Malden! A dear, dear, dear friend. I loved Karl. He was great.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.

I just like really simple things. If I had been on tour for a while and I got to come back and take my girlfriend Eleanor on a date, we would go to the cinema and then out for dinner.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.