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"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."
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"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."


"The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen."


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


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


"My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club."


"We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist."


"I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches."
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