Top Gymnastics Quotes Collection
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There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.Collection: Gymnastics
As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.Collection: Gymnastics
Goals have to be realistic and flexible.Collection: Gymnastics
So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong.Collection: Gymnastics
I'm always smiling, always waving. I'm just a natural show-off.Collection: Gymnastics
Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.Collection: Gymnastics
What I like best is the competition itself.Collection: Gymnastics
Because I'm little, I think the audience likes me.Collection: Gymnastics
One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."Collection: Gymnastics
Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.Collection: Gymnastics
The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.Collection: Gymnastics
I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics.Collection: Gymnastics
The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to.Collection: Gymnastics
Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.Collection: Gymnastics
The harder we work now, the easier it will be later.Collection: Gymnastics
From what my friends tell me, apparently some guys can be pretty intimidated by me when they find out what I do. I find it funny because I try to be modest and I don't like to talk about gymnastics unless I am asked about it. But my roommates always take on my bragging rights and tell my life story to the guys we meet, which leaves me blushing.Collection: Gymnastics
Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my lifeCollection: Gymnastics
I don't think many people will remember me when I retire.Collection: Gymnastics
[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics.Collection: Gymnastics
When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.Collection: Gymnastics
I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.Collection: Gymnastics
I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.Collection: Gymnastics
Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.Collection: Gymnastics
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.Collection: Gymnastics
It was definitely a big change in my life going from the college scene to really kind of being on my own. I got married and moved to Houston and started a whole new journey. It was scary in a way, but what's great for me is just focusing on gymnastics and my wife. I'm really able to put 100% into what my goals are.Collection: Gymnastics
At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.Collection: Gymnastics
I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!Collection: Gymnastics
Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.Collection: Gymnastics
I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.Collection: Gymnastics
As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev.Collection: Gymnastics
Gymnastics, you get one shot; acting, it's like, do it again, do it again, do it again. So that was the one thing that I found very different. You're allowed to get different tries and you're more expressive in a way when you're working with people. In gymnastics, you're so on your own and individual.Collection: Gymnastics
With gymnastics, I know I was making some people in that world mad because they thought that I wasn't focused on gymnastics. They were like, 'Ugh, she won't get off social media, she's always tweeting.' They wanted me to be America's sweetheart. And I think I've never fit into that cookie cutter person.Collection: Gymnastics
We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.Collection: Gymnastics
Don't make excuses, just get it done!Collection: Gymnastics
There is no greatness without taking risks.Collection: Gymnastics
There is no such thing as failure, only partial success!Collection: Gymnastics
For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'Collection: Gymnastics
My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.Collection: Gymnastics
Movements are as eloquent as words.Collection: Gymnastics
Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.Collection: Gymnastics
After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.Collection: Gymnastics
Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.Collection: Gymnastics
Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.Collection: Gymnastics
I did rhythmic gymnastics and I absolutely adored it. I was in the squad for Sussex. I wasn't stupendous, but it was something that I was good at and I really loved the combination of discipline and expression. That, to me, was just dreamy.Collection: Gymnastics
I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.Collection: Gymnastics
I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.Collection: Gymnastics
I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.Collection: Gymnastics
Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.Collection: Gymnastics
I will always love gymnastics.Collection: Gymnastics
I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was a very competitive (and stressed out!) gymnast before getting into entertainment, but it was never the actual gymnastics that was my true love. I loved the performing aspect of it all.Collection: Gymnastics