If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

Its better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

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

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

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

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 cannot see you anymore. Your ego spans higher than the Himalayas.” Sutara

I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

Our fear leads us to say no all the time.

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.

What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.