Gymnastics Quotes
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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.
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My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.
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The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.
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I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore.
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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.
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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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Growing up, my friends played soccer or did gymnastics after school; I went on auditions with my mom.
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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.
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One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."
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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.
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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.'
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If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
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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.
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I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.
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When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.
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I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
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Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it's a good different, and it's something that I've always wanted to try.
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I am learning aerobics and gymnastics, so I would love to do an action film.
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I wish I could be good at gymnastics.
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Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.
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There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
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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.
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I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.
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There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
