I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.