Gymnastics Quotes

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 got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

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

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

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.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.

Gymnastics is so complex.

I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.