It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action
There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.
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.
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.
I've made some mistakes before.
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.
Prejudice is always dangerous.
If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.
You can't really control how people are going to feel about you; all you can really do is be yourself. Because if you seduce somebody, and you seduce them by pretending to be a certain way, once they are seduced they are going to find that you are not that way. And then you have to maintain an image that's not real, so you really screw yourself. The best is to be yourself and hope they like you.