Gymnastics famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."
-- Albert Azaryan -
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.
-- Alicia Sacramone -
I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.
-- Alicia Sacramone -
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.
-- Aly Raisman -
I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.
-- Aly Raisman -
Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.
-- Aly Raisman -
I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.
-- Amy Adams -
I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.
-- Ashley Scott -
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.
-- August Bournonville -
The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.
-- Bela Karolyi -
In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.
-- Bela Karolyi -
I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.
-- Bela Karolyi -
The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.
-- Bela Karolyi -
You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!
-- Bela Karolyi -
Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
-- Bela Karolyi -
[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
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.
-- Betty Okino -
Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.
-- Blaine Wilson -
Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.
-- Brandy Johnson -
I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.
-- Bruno Grandi -
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 -
My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.
-- Caroline Rhea -
I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers 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 -
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 -
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 -
The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.
-- Cheng Fei -
When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.
-- Chloe Grace Moretz -
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.
-- Chris Jericho -
When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.
-- Chrisse Feros -
If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.
-- Courtney Kupets -
I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court.
-- Craig Ferguson -
I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics.
-- Dina Kochetkova -
Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.
-- Dmitry Bilozerchev -
There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.
-- Dominique Dawes -
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.
-- Dominique Moceanu -
It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.
-- Dominique Moceanu -
Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
-- Earl King -
I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.
-- Ecaterina Szabo -
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.
-- Edward Kennedy -
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.
-- Elena Mukhina -
The harder we work now, the easier it will be later.
-- Elise Ray -
It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.
-- Elle Varner -
I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.
-- Emmy Rossum -
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
-- Francois Fenelon -
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.
-- Gabby Douglas -
I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
-- Gabby Douglas -
Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.
-- Gina Gogean -
[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics.
-- Grigory Misutin -
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
-- Gwendoline Christie -
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
-- Helen Keller -
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.
-- Henrietta Onodi -
It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.
-- Henry Clay Payne -
Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.
-- Jaime Pressly -
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.
-- James Clerk Maxwell -
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.
-- James Russell Lowell -
With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.
-- Jamie Foxx -
What you can do, or think you can, begin it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.
-- Jonathan Horton -
It’s called the pursuit of perfection. The pursuit is the idea that you’ll never be perfect in gymnastics but you can continue to pursue it as long as you’re doing it. I don’t think it’s possible to be perfect in gymnastics. It’s just one of those sports that you’re always trying to improve and pursue that perfection.
-- Jonathan Horton -
I’m a true believer in the mental side of gymnastics – the 95% mental and 5% physical. It’s totally true. As you get to an older age, at 25 years old, I’ve pretty much learned everything that I need to learn in gymnastics. Now it’s, can I mentally push through the daily grind? Can I push through the small injuries and the aches and pains?
-- Jonathan Horton -
Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life
-- Kateryna Serebrianska -
It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.
-- Kerri Strug -
I'm always smiling, always waving. I'm just a natural show-off.
-- Kristie Phillips -
We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.
-- Kristie Phillips -
I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.
-- Kristin Kreuk -
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.
-- Lavinia Agache -
In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.
-- Lavinia Milosovici -
As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev.
-- Li Ning -
I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.
-- Lindsey Vonn -
Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man' ... But Patrick loved it. He said, 'You sound like a young boy, like a child, like an old woman, like an old man,' and really, we all have all of those things inside of us. I don't do any vocal gymnastics to make the voice better as I age. If it comes out rougher, then it's true to what's happening. Singing is who I am. I didn't train for it, any more than I trained for anything else I did. I probably should take better care of myself physically, but it goes against the grain.
-- Lisa Gerrard -
I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.
-- Ludmilla Tourischeva -
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.
-- Ludmilla Tourischeva -
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
-- Madeleine Albright -
I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
-- Malaika Arora Khan -
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
-- Malcolm Forbes -
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
-- Marian Dragulescu -
The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
-- Mark Rippetoe -
It's nice to have a medal, but we were hoping for a gold.
-- Marta Karolyi -
As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.
-- Mary Lou Retton -
In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.
-- McKayla Maroney -
I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.
-- Mia Hamm -
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
-- Mike Ditka -
I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.
-- Misty Copeland -
Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
-- Mitch Gaylord -
I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.
-- Mitsuo Tsukahara -
Because I'm little, I think the audience likes me.
-- Mo Huilan -
You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
-- Nadia Comaneci -
I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.
-- Nadia Comaneci -
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
-- Nadia Comaneci -
Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
-- Nadia Comaneci -
I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
-- Nadia Comaneci -
Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it.
-- Nastia Liukin -
If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.
-- Nastia Liukin -
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
-- Nastia Liukin -
Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can build a lot of character, strength, flexibility, and courage. Hopefully, they can also develop a sense of fearlessness.
-- Nastia Liukin -
At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ballet, but every workout of mine included training in choreography.
-- Natalia Yurchenko
