Gymnastics Quotes
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I loved gymnastics, and my gymnastics teacher said ballet was essential to help my dance routines in competitions. I only really went because my friends were going as well. It wasn't this kind of hidden love. Then, slowly, my friends stopped going and I thought, 'I like this. I am going to stay.'
Darcey Bussell -
I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.
Emmy Rossum
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Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.
Aly Raisman -
Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
Liang Chow -
I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day.
Gabby Douglas -
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
Andy Rooney -
I don't see myself coaching gymnastics. I see myself involved in the sport in the future but involved in other things as well.
Aly Raisman -
I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.
Wilson Bethel
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Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.
Amanda Borden -
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 -
In football, you're dealing with grown men. In gymnastics, you're dealing with prepubescent teenage girls. There's a huge difference. At that age, you're not confident enough to have a voice.
Dominique Moceanu -
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
Plato -
I am learning aerobics and gymnastics, so I would love to do an action film.
Disha Patani -
Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.
Dominique Moceanu
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Growing up, my friends played soccer or did gymnastics after school; I went on auditions with my mom.
Kellie Martin -
After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.
David Boudia -
I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.
Oksana Chusovitina -
I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.
Bela Karolyi -
My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did.
Laurie Hernandez -
I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.
Alicia Sacramone
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I'm obsessed with gymnastics. It's like my football. And I like to watch women's gymnastics a little bit more than men's because I live for balance beam.
Jonathan Van Ness -
When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.
Amy Chow -
In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.
McKayla Maroney -
For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'
Gabby Douglas