Gymnastics Quotes

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.

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

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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