The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

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.

No competition, no progress.

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.

Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God.

Life is less about finding and more about seeking.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way."