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 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.

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.

But you became self-aware. Somehow, you began to hear the Narrator’s voice. You realised that you were a character in a story. You tried to fight. These actions have disrupted the flow of fiction.

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

I consider myself to be an entertainer, given that I'm most known as MGK "the rapper" I don't have a problem with the label, I just want the people to know that I am much more than that.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?