Gymnastics Quotes

I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

It's nice to have a medal, but we were hoping for a gold.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.

The harder we work now, the easier it will be later.

You want to picture yourself being on top and doing amazing gymnastics.

I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics.

I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.

If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

I don't think many people will remember me when I retire.

I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.

Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.

Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher score than Chinese kids? That never happens.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

I'm always smiling, always waving. I'm just a natural show-off.

I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.

Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.

I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.