Best 169 quotes in «gymnastics quotes» category

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    Mentally there's no question about whether I still like the sport and love doing it. I think it's pretty clear to everyone here that I love the sport. I love doing gymnastics and I love performing. So that's not really a question.

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    Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

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    My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

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    My mom and dad were extremely supportive. But my mom, she definitely made a lot of sacrifices, specifically because she wasn't working at the time. She ended up going and finding a job so she could continue to put me through gymnastics.

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    My mom was always like, "If you love it, do it. If she's actually having fun, and I know that my kid is having fun, she's gonna do whatever she wants. Whether that's gymnastics, learning the car, acting or just being a normal kid, she's gonna do what makes her happy." That's how I've always lived my life.

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    Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

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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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    Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

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    People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

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    Please keep watching rhythmic gymnastics in spite of its situation. If you quit watching it, rhythmic gymnastics will not exist any longer. Your eyes are much more important than judge's are.

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    Put fire into your workout any you burn off worry and frustration!

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    Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

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    My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

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    Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

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    Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

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    Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

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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.

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    Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

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    Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.

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    Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days. Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!!

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    Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

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    The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored, rejected, and forgotten. No amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the past 50 years....The AMA has turned into a propaganda organ purveying 'medical politics' for deceiving the Congress, the people, and the doctors of America themselves.

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    The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and moral stresses which not even all grown-ups could bear.

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    The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.

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    The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

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    The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to.

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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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    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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    There are no limits on your dreams if you're willing to work for it.

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    The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

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    There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.

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    The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

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    There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.

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    There's a point in gymnastics where once you get to a certain age your body just isn't going to be able to handle it anymore. But I'd like to continue on as long as I'm able to help the team out and be a contributor to the success of the U.S. team.

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    Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.

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    Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.

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    Wake up every day knowing that today is a new day and only you can determine the outcome of that day. So dream big, accept the challenge, and never look back.

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    We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

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    Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

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    The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

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    What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

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    We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.

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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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    When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.

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    When it comes to gymnastics, you can be 30 points ahead going into that competition, but on that day, it's all about luck. It's about who has a good day, who stays healthy, it's how happy the judges are that day, there are so many different factors.

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    When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

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    When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.

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    When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

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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.

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    When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.