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

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.

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.

Not the kind of person, who believes that it is best to believe "what happened, happened as it should happen" when things don't come as expected.

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.

We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people, the world over.

Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?

I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.