"The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics."

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Source : Dominique Moceanu (2012). “Off Balance: A Memoir”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

Dominique Moceanu

#Summer Quotes #Sports Quotes #Careers Quotes

“Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We’re hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.”
“I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell”
“Trust in the process you are now experiencing. Life is on your side. It is showing that to you now, though you may not be able to see it clearly at this time.”
“Honor your commitments with integrity.”
“I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me.”
“A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.”
“My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.”
“Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.”

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