Gymnastics Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

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 can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

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

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

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.