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

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.

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.

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.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

When the body is urged to participate with the universe, it creates access routes for emotionality and intellectuality as well.

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

I want to be in shape.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.