Ali Krieger Quotes
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.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!
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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.
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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.
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Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.
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I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.
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See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'
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Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.
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I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.
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Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.
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We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.
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I had a stunt double for 'The Bronze.' She's literally the most amazing human being I've ever seen. She's NCAA women's gymnastics champion. She was incredible. I would poke her thighs, and my nail would break because it was like poking a rock.
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Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
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In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.
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I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.
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The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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I heard this wonderful quote - "Only the brave show what they love." It's so-embarrassing to approach somebody and say you want to look at them. But without that risk taking, nothing can happen, so I have to make myself vulnerable. What I think is the unifying aspect in people that I like is that they have a sense of their own vulnerability, and I respond to that.
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If you're a comic book fan, you know that any epic book, you would open it up - as a kid, I would just go through and look at who was fighting who. I'd stand there in the store for 15 minutes until the guy told me to buy the book or get out.
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Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store.
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I will never not take anyone's phone call.
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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.
