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

- Sergei Bubka

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.

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

- Sergei Bubka

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.

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

Sports life is very short.

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important.

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

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.

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka

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

- Sergei Bubka