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.
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.
I began with track and field because this is what I know.
I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.
I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.
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.
I moved to Donetske in 1979. There were better facilities so my coach changed clubs and we moved with him.
I think about retiring from the sport.
I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.
I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
It is not enough to be strong, you must work with your mind and be a clever person who can calculate. It's like having a small computer in your head.
My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.
My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.
Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important.
Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
Sports life is very short.
The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.
The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.
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.
Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.
Today, talent alone is not enough.
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.
What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.
You must have the ability, if I may say so, to use such a high grip. You must have perfect technique. Then you can move to a higher grip.
You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
You spend many hours thinking about what the approximate winning height will be.
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
Death is the most blessed dream.
Dying people often become childish.
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
Love is a peculiar thing.
Murder begins where self-defense ends.
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.
That is a long word: forever!
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
The Revolution is like Saturn - it eats its own children.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
Your words smell of corpses.
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