Motivation Quote by Sergei Bubka

Bubka is doing something deceptively hard here: making a non-glamorous truth sound almost plain. “The pole vault is a very complicated event” reads like a shrug, but it’s also a quiet rebuttal to the highlight-reel myth that vaulting is just speed, courage, and a big springy stick. Coming from a man who turned the event into a personal laboratory - rewriting the record book centimeter by centimeter - the line lands as a kind of athlete’s realism. No poetry, no mysticism, just the work.

The second clause, “there are many things involved,” is the tell. It’s not merely that the event is technical; it’s that the technique is plural. Pole vaulting is choreography between run-up velocity, takeoff angle, grip height, pole stiffness, inversion timing, and the smallest errors in body position that get magnified six meters in the air. Bubka’s phrasing refuses the seductive simplicity that audiences (and sometimes commentators) demand. If you fail, it’s not because you “lost your nerve.” It might be because your step was two centimeters off.

The context matters: Bubka emerged from the Soviet-era system that treated sport as engineering plus discipline, not pure inspiration. His quote carries that lineage while also protecting the athlete’s interior world. By calling the event “complicated,” he’s setting a boundary against casual judgment, and maybe against the athlete’s own ego: mastery isn’t a vibe, it’s an accumulation of solved problems.