Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
Manolo Blahnik
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I'm a perfectionist to a fault.
Nate Parker
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
Rachele Brooke Smith
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At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!
Nadia Comaneci
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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.
Olga Korbut
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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.
Olga Korbut
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Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.
Nadia Comaneci
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
A. James Clark
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I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
Dan Millman
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
Malaika Arora Khan
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I'm a perfectionist about being on time.
Tammin Sursok
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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?'
Nadia Comaneci
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Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.
Nadia Comaneci
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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.
Barbara Demick
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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.
Haley Lu Richardson
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Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
Nadia Comaneci
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I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.
Bela Karolyi
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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.
Jennie Finch
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The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.
McKayla Maroney
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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
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Nothing else can fill better colors in one's life like the magnificent nature does.
Anamika Mishra
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Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.
Lee H. Hamilton
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If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive.
Marilyn Minter
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I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.
Nadia Comaneci