Dominique Moceanu quotes
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“I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.”
-- Dominique MoceanuSource : "CNN Newsroom" with Don Lemon, www.cnn.com. June 13, 2012.
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“I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.”
-- Dominique MoceanuSource : "Champion Gymnast's Hidden Life: Dominique Moceanu on Secret Sister" by Alison Lynn, abcnews.go.com. June 8, 2012.
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“The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.”
-- Dominique MoceanuSource : Dominique Moceanu (2012). “Off Balance: A Memoir”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
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“As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.”
-- Dominique MoceanuSource : Dominique Moceanu (2012). “Off Balance: A Memoir”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
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“My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.”
-- Dominique MoceanuSource : "For Gymnast Moceanu, Life Threw Her Off Balance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 30, 2012.
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“Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.”
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“We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.”
-- Dominique MoceanuSource : "Dominique Moceanu Talks Body Image In Gymnastics, Says Coaches Can ‘Scar For Life’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2013.
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“In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.”
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“Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.”
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“I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed,”
-- Dominique MoceanuSource : "Dominique Moceanu, Olympic Gymnast, On Confronting Her Parents About Her Secret Sister". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2013.
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“It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.”
-- Dominique Moceanu
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