No competition, no progress.

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

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

creative people see and feel things in ways not all people can understand.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Virtue alone is happiness below.

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.