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

  

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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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• 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 had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

  

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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