Gymnastics Quotes:

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

source: "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2010.

topic: Gymnastics, Swimming, Acting, Kickboxing

One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."

- Albert Azaryan

topic: Gymnastics, Body, Arms

Wake up every day knowing that today is a new day and only you can determine the outcome of that day. So dream big, accept the challenge, and never look back.

- Alicia Sacramone

topic: Dream, Gymnastics, Knowing, Today Is A New Day, Gymnast

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.

- Alicia Sacramone

topic: Mom, Crazy, Gymnastics

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.

- Aly Raisman

topic: Team, Gymnastics, Mind

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.

- Aly Raisman

topic: Athlete, Gymnastics, Thinking, Working Really Hard, Self Motivated

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

- Aly Raisman

topic: Dream, Gymnastics, World

I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.

- Amy Adams

topic: Gymnastics

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

- Ashley Scott

topic: Gymnastics, Trainers

The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

- August Bournonville

source: August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

topic: Dance, Gymnastics, Hands

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

- Bela Karolyi

topic: Gymnastics, World

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

- Bela Karolyi

topic: Stress, Gymnastics, Body, Concussions

I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.

- Bela Karolyi

topic: Appreciation, Gymnastics

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

- Bela Karolyi

topic: Gymnastics, Community, Olympics

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

- Bela Karolyi

topic: Athlete, Gymnastics, People

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

- Bela Karolyi

topic: Gymnastics, Sacrifice, Goal

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Gymnastics, Challenges, Actors

We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.

- Betty Okino

topic: Gymnastics, Winning, Thinking

Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.

- Blaine Wilson

topic: Gymnastics, Gymnast, Yeah

Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.

- Brandy Johnson

topic: Dream, Heart, Gymnastics

I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.

- Bruno Grandi

topic: Gymnastics, Gone, Eras, Steers

Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.

- Carlos Gavito

topic: Gymnastics, Feelings, Steps, Tango

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

- Caroline Rhea

topic: Daughter, Mother, Gymnastics

I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.

- Catherine Mary Stewart

topic: Crazy, Gymnastics, Years

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.

- Cathy Rigby

topic: School, Gymnastics, Hair, Pigtails

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.

- Cathy Rigby

topic: Beautiful, Sports, Gymnastics

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

- Cheng Fei

topic: Athlete, Gymnastics, Giving, Show Respect, Best Performance

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

- Chloe Grace Moretz

topic: Soccer, Gymnastics, Ballet

Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.

- Chris Jericho

topic: Sports, Wrestling, Gymnastics, Pro Wrestling

When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.

- Chrisse Feros

topic: Gymnastics, Trying, Exhausted

If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.

- Courtney Kupets

topic: Believe, Fighting, Gymnastics

I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Funny, Country, Gymnastics, London Olympics

I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics.

- Dina Kochetkova

topic: Gymnastics, Want

Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.

- Dmitry Bilozerchev

topic: Gymnastics, Hair, Elements

There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.

- Dominique Dawes

topic: Mistake, Gymnastics, Challenges, Faltering

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 Moceanu

source: "For Gymnast Moceanu, Life Threw Her Off Balance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 30, 2012.

topic: Running, Gymnastics, Years

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

topic: Believe, Gymnastics, Opportunity

Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

- Earl King

topic: Writing, Gymnastics

I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.

- Ecaterina Szabo

topic: Gymnastics, Years, Seven

The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored, rejected, and forgotten. No amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the past 50 years....The AMA has turned into a propaganda organ purveying 'medical politics' for deceiving the Congress, the people, and the doctors of America themselves.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Dark, Gymnastics, Past, American Citizens, Health Reform

The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and moral stresses which not even all grown-ups could bear.

- Elena Mukhina

topic: Children, Stress, Gymnastics, Working With Children

What I like best is the competition itself.

- Elena Piskun

topic: Gymnastics, Competition

The harder we work now, the easier it will be later.

- Elise Ray

topic: Gymnastics, Easier, Harder

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

- Elizabeth Taylor

topic: Gymnastics, Want, Force

I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.

- Elle Varner

topic: Mom, Gymnastics, Guitar

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.

- Emmy Rossum

topic: Birthday, Kids, Gymnastics

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

- Francois Fenelon

topic: Gymnastics, Men, Trying

My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.

- Gabby Douglas

topic: Giving Up, Fighting, Gymnastics

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

- Gabby Douglas

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Titles

Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.

- Gina Gogean

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Gymnastics, Giving, Interviews, Difficult Things, Giving In

[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics.

- Grigory Misutin

topic: Gymnastics, Genius

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

- Gwendoline Christie

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Children, Gymnastics, Injury, Gymnast

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Gymnastics, Acceptance, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Deficiency

Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

- Henrietta Onodi

topic: Soccer, Sports, Gymnastics

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

- Henry Clay Payne

topic: Fall, Gymnastics, Lows

Movements are as eloquent as words.

- Isadora Duncan

source: Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

topic: Gymnastics, Ballet, Movement

Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

- Jaime Pressly

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girlfriend, Gymnastics, Years, Bronze Medal

Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

- James Clerk Maxwell

topic: Mean, Gymnastics, Science, Electric Light

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Memories, Gymnastics, Intellectual

With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

- Jamie Foxx

topic: Gymnastics, Django, Safe

What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Indecisiveness

It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

- Jonathan Horton

topic: Gymnastics, Winning, Knowing, Gymnast

Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life

- Kateryna Serebrianska

topic: Gymnastics, Important, Realizing

It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.

- Kerri Strug

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Important, Gymnast

I'm always smiling, always waving. I'm just a natural show-off.

- Kristie Phillips

topic: Gymnastics, Always Smile, Natural

We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.

- Kristie Phillips

topic: Morning, Gymnastics, Practice

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

- Kristin Kreuk

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Growing Up, Gymnastics, Splits

When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.

- Lavinia Agache

topic: Country, Gymnastics, Winning, No One Cares

In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.

- Lavinia Milosovici

topic: Sports, Hero, Gymnastics, World Champions

As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev.

- Li Ning

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Technique, Virtuosity

I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.

- Lindsey Vonn

topic: Kids, Gymnastics, Very Good

Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man' ... But Patrick loved it. He said, 'You sound like a young boy, like a child, like an old woman, like an old man,' and really, we all have all of those things inside of us. I don't do any vocal gymnastics to make the voice better as I age. If it comes out rougher, then it's true to what's happening. Singing is who I am. I didn't train for it, any more than I trained for anything else I did. I probably should take better care of myself physically, but it goes against the grain.

- Lisa Gerrard

source: "The Spirit Of Dead Can Dance". Interview with J. Poet, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2005.

topic: Children, Gymnastics, Boys

I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.

- Ludmilla Tourischeva

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Support, Acrobatics

The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to.

- Ludmilla Tourischeva

topic: Gymnastics, Trying, Moments, Gymnast

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

- Madeleine Albright

topic: War, Gymnastics, Elephants, Government Bureaucracy

I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

- Malaika Arora Khan

topic: Gymnastics, Acrobatics, Popping, Robotics

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Positive, Success, Gymnastics, Small Victories, Victory And Defeat

I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

- Marian Dragulescu

topic: Gymnastics, Winning, Games

The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar

- Mark Rippetoe

topic: Gymnastics, Bars

It's nice to have a medal, but we were hoping for a gold.

- Marta Karolyi

topic: Nice, Gymnastics, Gold

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

- Mary Lou Retton

topic: Gymnastics, Achievement

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

- McKayla Maroney

topic: Gymnastics, Makeup, Hair, Leotards

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

- Mia Hamm

topic: Gymnastics, Swimming, Track, I Love Swimming

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.

- Mike Ditka

topic: Believe, Gymnastics, Thinking, Get It Done

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

- Misty Copeland

topic: Growing Up, Gymnastics, Thinking

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

- Mitch Gaylord

topic: Gymnastics, Discipline, Acting

I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.

- Mitsuo Tsukahara

topic: Running, Gymnastics, Jumping

Because I'm little, I think the audience likes me.

- Mo Huilan

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Littles

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

- Nadia Comaneci

topic: Gymnastics, Appreciate, People, Surround Yourself With Positive People

I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.

- Nadia Comaneci

topic: Gymnastics, Play, Laughing, Gymnast

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

- Nadia Comaneci

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Years

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

- Nadia Comaneci

topic: Gymnastics, Perfect, People

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

- Nadia Comaneci

topic: School, Gymnastics, Age

Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it.

- Nastia Liukin

topic: Dream, Believe, Gymnastics, Long Term Goals, Infinite Possibilities

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

- Nastia Liukin

source: Twitter post from Jan 3, 2012

topic: Gymnastics, Afraid Of Failure, Deserve, Inspiring Athlete, Coaches And Athletes

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

- Nastia Liukin

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Careers

Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can build a lot of character, strength, flexibility, and courage. Hopefully, they can also develop a sense of fearlessness.

- Nastia Liukin

topic: Character, Kids, Gymnastics

At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ballet, but every workout of mine included training in choreography.

- Natalia Yurchenko

topic: Workout, Gymnastics, Two

The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.

- Neshka Robeva

topic: Girl, Eye, Gymnastics

Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.

- Neshka Robeva

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Judging

I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

- Nolan Gerard Funk

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Toddler

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

- Oksana Chusovitina

topic: Gymnastics, Years, What Matters

I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.

- Oksana Chusovitina

topic: Gymnastics, Life Is Like, Normal

At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.

- Olena Vitrychenko

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Judging, World Champions

Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Gymnastics, Important, Retreat

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

- Olga Korbut

topic: Gymnastics, Born, Duty

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.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Sports, Strong, Gymnastics

If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Motivational, Sports, Gymnastics

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

- Olga Korbut

topic: Gymnastics, World, May

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.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Kids, Gymnastics, Years, Sixteen Year Olds

I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Life, Gymnastics, Thinking

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.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Gymnastics, World, Want

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Gymnastics, Creation

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.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Gymnastics, People, World

Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Gymnastics, Tape, Life Is

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.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Gymnastics, Six, Nineteen

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.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Gymnastics, Want, Negative

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.

- Olga Korbut

topic: Wall, Fun, Gymnastics

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

- Peter McWilliams

topic: Mistake, Gymnastics, Needs, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, My Mistakes

Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.

- Peter Vidmar

topic: Hard Work, Gymnastics, Giving, Extra Effort, Convenient

[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts think if their arm is bent a little it doesn't matter, but Nemov understands it matters.

- Peter Vidmar

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Thinking, Aesthetics, Gymnast

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him?

- Primo Levi

topic: Gymnastics, Men, Keys, Creation Of Man

Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.

- Raj Bhavsar

topic: Gymnastics, Alive, Reminders

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

- Robert Browning

topic: Gymnastics, Break, Endeavor

First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport.

- Rozalia Galiyeva

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Training, Gymnast

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

- Sam Ewing

topic: Inspirational, Gymnastics, Hours

Mentally there's no question about whether I still like the sport and love doing it. I think it's pretty clear to everyone here that I love the sport. I love doing gymnastics and I love performing. So that's not really a question.

- Samantha Peszek

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Thinking

I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.

- Serinda Swan

topic: Gymnastics, Cutting, Years, Pixies

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Inspirational, Gymnastics, Expectations, High Expectations, Gymnast

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

- Shannon Miller

source: Interview With Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

topic: Motivational, Gymnastics, Competition, Gymnast

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Fall, Gymnastics, Expectations

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

- Shannon Miller

source: Interview With Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

topic: Gymnastics, Use, Body

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Fall, Gymnastics, Keys, Gymnast

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

- Shannon Miller

source: "Chat: Shannon Miller". Interview with Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

topic: Gymnastics, Half, Routine

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Attitude, Gymnastics, Being Positive, Gymnast, Bickering

If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Strong, Rain, Gymnastics, Workload, Rain Or Shine

I think that to be a competitive athlete, you have to be goal-oriented.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Athlete, Gymnastics, Thinking, Goal Oriented

There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Teacher, Sibling, Gymnastics

Goals have to be realistic and flexible.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Gymnastics, Goal, Realistic

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Gymnastics, Television, Want

...there are no limits on your dreams if you're willing to work for it

- Shannon Miller

source: "Interview With Olympic Gold Medalist Shannon Miller". Interview with Jen Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

topic: Dream, Gymnastics, Limits

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

- Shannon Miller

topic: Gymnastics, Perfect, Steps

And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Gymnastics, Years, Olympics

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Athlete, Gymnastics, Games

...above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.

- Shannon Miller

source: "Shannon Miller: 'I Was Intimidated By Everything, Except Being On The Balance Beam'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, www.celebritybabyscoop.com. January 13, 2010.

topic: Passion, Fighting, Gymnastics

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.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Giving

I don't believe that there's anyone in the world without a competitive bone in their body.

- Shannon Miller

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Believe, Gymnastics, World

So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Succeed

If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.

- Shannon Miller

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Scar

There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.

- Shannon Miller

source: "Interview With Olympic Gold Medalist Shannon Miller". Interview with Jen Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

topic: Dream, Jobs, Gymnastics

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

- Shawn Johnson

source: Shawn Johnson (2012). “Winning Balance: What I’ve Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Mistake, Gymnastics, Getting Back Up, Steadfastness, We All Make Mistakes

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

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Life Lesson, Responsibility, Gymnastics, Gymnast

I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Thinking

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

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, Movement, Timing

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.

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, Heartbreaking, Might

If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Nerves

Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Heart, Mean, Gymnastics

Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, Important, Doe, Gymnast

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

- Shawn Johnson

source: "Gymnastic Gold: Interview with Shawn Johnson and Her Mom, Teri". Interview by Ilyssa Panitz, www.parents.com.

topic: Gymnastics, Sacrifice

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

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, Beijing, Difficulty

Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

- Shawn Johnson

source: "Gymnastic Gold: Interview with Shawn Johnson and Her Mom, Teri". Interview by Ilyssa Panitz, www.parents.com.

topic: Strong, Gymnastics, Broke, Lowest Point

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!

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Goal

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.

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, Blessing, Tears

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

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Zero, Gymnastics, Basics

Gymnastics is so complex.

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics

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

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Giving Up, Gymnastics, Opportunity

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.

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, Two, Training

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, Impossible, Comeback

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

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Running, Gymnastics, Years

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.

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, Class, Parent, Tots

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

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, People, Olympics

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

- Suzanne Yoculan

source: Suzanne Yoculan, Bill Donalson (2006). “Perfect 10: The UGA GymDogs and the Rise of Women's College Gymnastics in America”, p.100, Gibbs Smith

topic: Gymnastics, Keys, Conditioning, Strength And Conditioning

Put fire into your workout any you burn off worry and frustration!

- Suzanne Yoculan

topic: Workout, Gymnastics, Frustration

There is no greatness without taking risks.

- Suzanne Yoculan

topic: Gymnastics, Greatness, Risk

There is no such thing as failure, only partial success!

- Suzanne Yoculan

topic: Gymnastics

Don't make excuses, just get it done!

- Suzanne Yoculan

topic: Gymnastics, Done, Excuse, Get It Done

All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations . . . work together.)

- Suzanne Yoculan

topic: Team, Heart, Gymnastics

Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

- Svetlana Boginskaya

topic: Hard Work, Gymnastics, Champion, Gymnast

By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty.

- Svetlana Boginskaya

topic: Sports, Athlete, Gymnastics

I don't think many people will remember me when I retire.

- Svetlana Boginskaya

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, People

This is how [the] sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it. I was going to add [the] before the word sport since I thought was either a typo or a problem translating what she said, but then I thought it made sense without it too , so I left it as is. Just know that that's not a typo on my part.

- Svetlana Khorkina

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Discipline, Typos

I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!

- Svetlana Khorkina

topic: Gymnastics, Easy

Please keep watching rhythmic gymnastics in spite of its situation. If you quit watching it, rhythmic gymnastics will not exist any longer. Your eyes are much more important than judge's are.

- Teodora Alexandrova

topic: Eye, Gymnastics, Judging

Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.

- Vera Caslavska

topic: Girl, Sports, Gymnastics

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.

- Victoria Jackson

topic: Gymnastics, College, Married, My True Love, Gymnast

Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.

- Vitaly Scherbo

topic: Hero, Gymnastics, Thinking, Unbecoming

Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

- Vladislav Rastorotsky

topic: Inspiration, Believe, Gymnastics, Perspiration, Gymnast

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

- Wilhelm Steinitz

topic: Gymnastics, Intellectual, Chess

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

- William Feather

topic: Gymnastics, Nine, Done

The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.

- William Meade

topic: Gymnastics, Mind, Body

I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body. When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years.

- Ali Krieger

source: "Under Ali Krieger's uniform". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. June 25, 2015.

topic: Dad, Gymnastics, Boys, Quads

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

- Li Ang

topic: Gymnastics, Thinking, Would Be

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.

- Massimiliano Gioni

topic: Art, Gymnastics, Firsts

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

- Meghan O'Rourke

topic: Sports, Gymnastics, Thinking

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

- Meghan O'Rourke

topic: Gymnastics, Grace, Athleticism, Eros

I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was a very competitive (and stressed out!) gymnast before getting into entertainment, but it was never the actual gymnastics that was my true love. I loved the performing aspect of it all.

- Rachele Brooke Smith

topic: Gymnastics, Phoenix, Stressed, My True Love

It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it.

- Simone Biles

topic: Fun, Kids, Gymnastics

I will always love gymnastics.

- Sophie Nelisse

topic: Gymnastics

I was a gymnast my whole life. I mean, I'd go to Starbucks and people would be like, 'Are you going to the next Olympics?' And when I'd say no, they'd literally look sad. So it was very hard for me to get excited about anything else. I thought that I had to do gymnastics forever.

- McKayla Maroney

source: Source: www.seventeen.com

topic: Mean, Gymnastics, People

Gymnastics, you get one shot; acting, it's like, do it again, do it again, do it again. So that was the one thing that I found very different. You're allowed to get different tries and you're more expressive in a way when you're working with people. In gymnastics, you're so on your own and individual.

- McKayla Maroney

source: Source: www.seventeen.com

topic: Gymnastics, People, Trying