I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball.
I've made some mistakes before.
When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.
There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.
It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.
It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.
Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.
For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.
It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a very cool but complex idea that we thought about representing in the film but could not find a way to make it work.