Gymnastics Quotes
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My sister has kids, including two in baby seats, and she drives a minivan. I had to climb over the car seats to get into the back seat, and it seemed ridiculous to have to do gymnastics to get in and out of the car.
Franz von Holzhausen
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Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.
Colin Farrell
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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
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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
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I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.
Bela Karolyi
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We had to get up at 6 a.m. and never had a problem. She was doing ballet and gymnastics, then dropped gymnastics,
Angela Davis
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I was really, really, really feminine and really into cheerleading and really into figure skating and really into gymnastics. Really into everything that other boys weren't.
Jonathan Van Ness
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Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
Liang Chow
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Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life
Kateryna Serebrianska
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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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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
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My gymnastics career was devoted to moments like Maroney’s or Biles’ vaults. I feel very proud to have made this impact to gymnastics’ progress and history.
Natalia Yurchenko
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The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.
Bela Karolyi
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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
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I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.
Jonathan Van Ness
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My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did.
Laurie Hernandez
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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
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I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.
Kristin Kreuk
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When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.
Oksana Chusovitina
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Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.
Aly Raisman
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I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.
Ashley Scott
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I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically.
Dominique Moceanu
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I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancer's body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.
Catherine Mary Stewart
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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