Pole Quotes

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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

So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.

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.

If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.