Gymnastics Quotes

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.