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.

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

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

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

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.

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.

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.