Motivation Quote by Sergei Bubka

In one plain sentence, Bubka turns a private ambition into a quiet act of dissent. “I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times” isn’t just a career footnote; it’s a claim about agency in a system built to swallow it. Soviet sport was famously lavish and brutally instrumental: athletes were nurtured, monitored, and deployed as proof of ideological superiority. To “create” something inside that machine suggests a different impulse - not simply to win, but to build an institution with its own identity, its own rules, maybe even its own loyalties.

The line lands because it’s understated. Bubka doesn’t frame it as rebellion, because in that era, grand declarations were the state’s language, not the individual’s. He uses the calm vocabulary of personal choice - “I decided” - and that tiny verb carries the voltage. It signals that even within a centralized sports apparatus, someone could imagine a corner of autonomy: a club rooted in community, training culture, mentorship, continuity. In the Soviet context, a “club” isn’t just a team; it’s a social structure, a place where networks form and futures are shaped. Wanting to found one is wanting to shape people, not just poles and bar heights.

“It was my dream” seals the emotional register. Not a plan, not a mandate - a dream. Bubka positions sport as something human-scaled: desire, belonging, legacy. The subtext is that athletic greatness wasn’t enough; he wanted authorship.