Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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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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People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.
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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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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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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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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
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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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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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I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.
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Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.
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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
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My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.
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You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
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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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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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I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.
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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
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As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
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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.