Sergei Bubka Quotes

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.

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• Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.

  

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• You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

  

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• Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

  

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• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

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• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

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• Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  

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• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

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• I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.

  

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• I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

  

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• In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

  

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• It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

  

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• All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

  

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• We knew we were going to do a fashion line at some point.

  

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• The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

  

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• I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind 'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.

  

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• I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

  

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• A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

  

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• My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

  

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• He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

  

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• 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
  • Sports
  • Athlete
  • Careers