Gymnast Quotes

• If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.

  Shannon Miller

  Strong, Rain, Gymnastics

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• I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Strong, School, Directors

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• If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

  Guy Finley

  Motivation, Gymnastics, Leap

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 15, 2013

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• Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

  Svetlana Boginskaya

  Motivational, Hard Work, Gymnastics

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• Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  Vladislav Rastorotsky

  Motivational, Believe, Inspiration

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• If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

  Nastia Liukin

  Basketball, Sports, Athlete

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2012

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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.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Motivational, Dream, Gymnastics

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• I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

  Victoria Jackson

  True Love, Gymnastics, College

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• Heart is what separates the good from the great.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Heart, Gymnastics

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

  Shannon Miller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gymnastics

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• What the hell, I'll just eat some trash.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Eclairs, Hell, Trash

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• Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

  Shannon Miller

  Motivational, Fall, Gymnastics

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the kitchen. You see an éclair in the receptacle... and you think to yourself: "What the hell, I'll just eat some trash."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Thinking, Kitchen, Finding Yourself

  "Fictional character: Jerry Seinfeld". TV Series "Seinfeld" ("The Gymnast", 1994), www.imdb.com. 1989–1998.

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• Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Important, Doe

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• When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

  Shannon Miller

  Motivational, Gymnastics, Competition

  Interview With Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

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• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Determination, Wrestling

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• 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

  Motivational, Gymnastics, Winning

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• 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

  Motivational, Gymnastics, Thinking

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• 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

  Motivational, Gymnastics, Play

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• This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

  Olga Korbut

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

  Shawn Johnson

  Life Lesson, Responsibility, Gymnastics

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• I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion.

  Rodney Yee

  Philosophy, Yoga, Passion

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• You get depressed because you're like, 'Everybody's working and I'm here sitting.' I feel for all gymnasts who get hurt. Injuries are just awful, but at least I had 'Bones' to work on when I wasn't training. It got my mind off the fact that I couldn't do anything.

  McKayla Maroney

  Hurt, Training, Mind

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• As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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