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Sergei Bubka [1963-0] Ukrainian

Rank: 103
Athlete, Tennis player

Sergei Sergeevich Bubka is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. He is a member of the Ukraine Davis Cup team and is coached by Tibor Toth, who is also the former coach of Sergiy Stakhovsky. Bubka is the son of pole vaulter Sergey Bubka.

Sports, Alone, Money

Quote	Tags	Rank
I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.	Alone	101
My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.	Sports	102
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.		103
Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.		104
I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.	Sports	105
I began with track and field because this is what I know.		106
The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.		107
You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.		108
The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.		109
I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.		110
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.		111
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!		112
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.		113
Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important.		114
Sports life is very short.		115
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.		116
I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.	Money	117
What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.		118
I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.		119
My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.		120
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.		121
Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.		122

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