Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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I always say I don't want to change anything in my life.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
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I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
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I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.
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I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I'm out of there.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
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I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.