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

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.

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.

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

Comments outnumber ideas.

You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?

You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.

It's unbelievable really. For something that started off as a hobby, I ended up getting paid for doing it.

Those who give up on their dreams shouldn't influence you to give up on yours.

I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies