Gymnastics Quotes
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While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.
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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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Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.
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Having the opportunity to go to the U.S. Olympics was great because I was the first Latina in over 30 years to compete in gymnastics at the Olympics.
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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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My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.
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If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
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I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.
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Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.
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It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it.
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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.
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When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years.
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I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.
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Being able to do something that I love and be at such a high level of gymnastics is just amazing.
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The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
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The best part is when parents come up to me with their kids, and they say, 'My daughter started gymnastics because of you.'
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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
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Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
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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 love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.
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Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise. I used to be naturally skinny in high school and college. I was in cheerleading, ran track, and did gymnastics, so I had a built-in five-hour workout every day. Lately, I've been doing Pilates on the Megaformer, which is like Pilates on steroids.
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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.
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The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.
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In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.
