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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.
When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.
The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.
I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in 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.
We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.
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.
The best part is when parents come up to me with their kids, and they say, 'My daughter started gymnastics because of you.'
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
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.
My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
I don't see myself coaching gymnastics. I see myself involved in the sport in the future but involved in other things as well.
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.
I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.
It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.
It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
I'm able to support my wife and family off of gymnastics. But at the same time I do take it very seriously - it is a job for me.
I love my height because when I'm doing gymnastics, it really benefits the sport - and also, I think being short is kind of cute.
Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days. Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!!
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
Gymnastics gives you the abs. It's not like I sit there doing like a thousand crunches before every practice or something like that.
I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.
When I was a kid, I did many sports. Judo, like my dad, but also volleyball, handball, and gymnastics. We never played much football.
Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.
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 life
Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.
Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
Apart from having heart surgery as a baby, I had a pretty normal upbringing. I attended mainstream school and did gymnastics and dancing.
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.
In elite gymnastics, I was surrounded by this bubble, that gymnastics was literally all I knew, and I'd like to know about worldly issues.
My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.
I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.
Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.
It is fine to be all focused on gymnastics if that is what you want to do, but once you are finished with gymnastics, what are you going to do?