Gymnastics Quotes
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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.
Olga Korbut -
Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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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.
Jasmine Tookes -
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.
William Feather -
My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.
Laurie Hernandez -
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 -
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
Honore de Balzac -
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.
Cathy Rigby
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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.
Ali Krieger -
I knew when I started gymnastics, I wanted to have a lot of fun and eventually go to the Olympics. On the moments where I felt really down, I just remembered, 'You're almost there. Just keep going. Keep working hard.'
Laurie Hernandez -
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.
Laurie Hernandez -
Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.
Han Xiaopeng -
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.
Carlos Gavito -
Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it's a good different, and it's something that I've always wanted to try.
Laurie Hernandez
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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.
Serinda Swan -
The best part is when parents come up to me with their kids, and they say, 'My daughter started gymnastics because of you.'
Laurie Hernandez -
Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
Mitch Gaylord -
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
Wilhelm Steinitz -
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 -
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.
Eva Longoria
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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.
William Meade -
I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.
Mia Hamm -
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.
Cathy Rigby -
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.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin