Russian Athlete Quotations

I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.

I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.

I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.

And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.

But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

I'd like to be known for my character.

I was caught in the middle. They should have either let me go or not play at all. They just froze me in the middle and now I'm stuck.

I will advise them on how to reach the summit, I will show them how, and I will help them, but I cannot be responsible for their safety.

I see the psychology of this team, I see they respect me very much as a climber, not like last year - these people value what I bring to them.

And then Richard was, my son was born, and this is another new deed to take care of him and I very happy I have a very good family.

This is why I like my coach, because of that she never said oh that's not good. He just told, we need to work more, harder, that's all.

No it's wrong, I had different youth, in my position as gymnastics, or so I saw all the world before I was sixteen, seventeen years old.

I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad.

Because you know some people can lie. I can't. You can see my eyes, right away, if I. And I will say it like this if I will lie to you.