Gymnastics Quotes
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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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I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about 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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The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.
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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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I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.
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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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At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.
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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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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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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.
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The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
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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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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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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
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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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Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.
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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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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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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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Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
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I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.
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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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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.
