Quote

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.

I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.

What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.

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.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.