Gymnastics Quotes

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.

Gymnastics is so complex.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

I will always love gymnastics.

Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.

Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.

Above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.

All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations . . . work together.)

Don't make excuses, just get it done!

I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics.

Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.

As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev.

Because I'm little, I think the audience likes me.

The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio.

I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!

Please keep watching rhythmic gymnastics in spite of its situation. If you quit watching it, rhythmic gymnastics will not exist any longer. Your eyes are much more important than judge's are.

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.

Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.

Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.

When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

What I like best is the competition itself.

I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day.

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.