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Motivation Quote by Sergei Bubka

"My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region"

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Bubka’s line has the clean, almost disarming modesty of an athlete who learned to speak in results, not manifestos. “My policy” sounds bureaucratic, like a committee memo, but he immediately undercuts the grandness of that word with “just,” shrinking the claim down to something practical and hard to argue with: give people “good things” and let sport do the rest. It’s a self-portrait as a provider, not a politician.

The vagueness is the point. “Good things” can mean facilities, funding, opportunities, equipment, safe spaces to train, maybe even the soft power of attention and prestige. By refusing specifics, he keeps the statement morally airtight: who’s against giving good things to sports? That ambiguity also functions as insulation. Bubka’s career and post-competition influence sit in the complicated overlap of Soviet legacy, Ukrainian nationhood, and global sports administration. In that ecosystem, clarity can become a liability, a quote that gets weaponized by rivals or trapped in ideological crossfire.

“in my region” narrows the scope in a way that reads generous and strategic. It signals loyalty to a local base, the place that produced him, while sidestepping broader national or geopolitical commitments. The subtext is a familiar athlete-to-institution pipeline: I benefited from the system, I gained leverage, now I’m using it to build infrastructure and keep the talent funnel alive. It’s not poetry; it’s brand management with a civic gloss.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bubka, Sergei. (n.d.). My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-policy-was-just-to-give-good-things-for-sports-97400/

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Bubka, Sergei. "My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-policy-was-just-to-give-good-things-for-sports-97400/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-policy-was-just-to-give-good-things-for-sports-97400/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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Sergei Bubka

Sergei Bubka (born February 4, 1963) is a Athlete from Ukraine.

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