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

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

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

I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.

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

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

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