Quotes by Ukrainian authors

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Small: My speed is my greatest asset
"My speed is my greatest asset"
Peter Bondra, Athlete
Small: Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime
"Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime"
Peter Bondra, Athlete
Small: I just cannot have an offer on the table and just let it go
"I just cannot have an offer on the table and just let it go"
Peter Bondra, Athlete
Small: Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was
"Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way"
Peter Bondra, Athlete
Small: My job is to score goals
"My job is to score goals"
Peter Bondra, Athlete
Small: You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily
Sergei Bubka
"You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region
Sergei Bubka
"My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club
Sergei Bubka
"My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to th
Sergei Bubka
"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, Athlete
Small: I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream
Sergei Bubka
"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep yo
Sergei Bubka
"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"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the cl
Sergei Bubka
"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"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses
Sergei Bubka
"Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen
Sergei Bubka
"The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you cant take a crazy risk
Sergei Bubka
"Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: Sports life is very short
Sergei Bubka
"Sports life is very short"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
Sergei Bubka
"People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day
Sergei Bubka
"I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: I began with track and field because this is what I know
Sergei Bubka
"I began with track and field because this is what I know"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want
Sergei Bubka
"I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything
Sergei Bubka
"What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the w
Sergei Bubka
"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"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart
Sergei Bubka
"Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
Small: I dont need power at the cost of spilled blood
"I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood"
Viktor Yanukovych, Statesman
Small: Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy
"Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy"
Karl Radek, Politician
Small: In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absenc
"In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country"
Karl Radek, Politician
Small: Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from whic
"Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it"
Karl Radek, Politician
Small: I was on the abutment
Abraham Zapruder
"I was on the abutment"
Abraham Zapruder, Businessman
Small: It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home
"It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home"
Emanuel Ax, Musician
Small: I usually only play with very close friends
"I usually only play with very close friends"
Emanuel Ax, Musician
Small: Even if you dont like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway
"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway"
Emanuel Ax, Musician
Small: If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awak
"If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once"
Karl Radek, Politician
Small: Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film
Abraham Zapruder
"Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film"
Abraham Zapruder, Businessman
Small: If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job
"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job"
Emanuel Ax, Musician
Small: The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end
"The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end"
Viktor Yushchenko, Statesman
Small: Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution
"Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution"
Viktor Yushchenko, Statesman
Small: Sex in a womans world has the same currency a penny has in a mans. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one
"Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience"
Harry Golden, Writer
Small: Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have ind
"Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other"
Karl Radek, Politician
Small: Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a
Abraham Zapruder
"Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out"
Abraham Zapruder, Businessman
Small: For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me
"For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me"
Viktor Yanukovych, Statesman