Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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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'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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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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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.
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I thought celebrity meant Hollywood, that's it. I began to see that does include Olympians. People have so much respect for Olympians.
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You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
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If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.
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One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
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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'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.
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Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
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We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
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I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.
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Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
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As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
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I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.