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
Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can’t take a crazy risk. – Sergei Bubka
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart. – Sergei Bubka
I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches. – 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 Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen. – 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
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
My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club. – Sergei Bubka
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages! – Sergei Bubka
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. – Sergei Bubka
