Motivation Quote by Sergei Bubka

“I am alone” lands like a confession, but it’s really a thesis statement for elite sport: the public sees a team, a federation, a flag; the athlete feels the solitary physics of performance. Bubka, the pole-vaulting icon who turned record-breaking into a method, compresses the paradox of greatness into one blunt line. You get help, yes - coaches, physios, sponsors, selectors - but none of them take the run-up. None of them absorb the instant when the body either clears the bar or doesn’t.

The pivot phrase “some people help me” is doing quiet political work. It acknowledges support without surrendering authorship. That’s a veteran’s way of keeping relationships functional: grateful enough to be palatable, firm enough to stay in control. The comma-heavy rhythm reads like someone thinking aloud, negotiating the acceptable amount of humility in front of reporters, administrators, maybe even a state system that wants to claim him.

Then the flex: “basically, I can do what I want.” It’s not adolescent swagger so much as an autonomy claim. In the late Soviet and post-Soviet world Bubka moved through, athletes were often treated as national assets. Saying you can do what you want is a small act of sovereignty - over training, competition schedules, even identity. The subtext is simple and modern: the best performers are brands before they’re citizens, and the price of being helped is being managed. Bubka’s line draws the boundary.