Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.
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You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
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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.
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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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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
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I like America. I don't want to hurt America.
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At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
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We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.
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I wanted to have a free life.
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I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.
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I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.
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I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
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I am a relaxed person. I am very happy.
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I am very highly appreciated in my country, and everybody seems to love me.
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I always say, 'When the Olympics are happening, you shouldn't be in any other place in the planet - you should be here.'
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It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
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I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.
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The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
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I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.
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Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
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Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.
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I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.
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If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.