Gymnast Quotes - Page 2

• I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

  Shawn Johnson

  Sports, Done

  "Shawn Johnson training for 2012". Interview with Amy Van Deusen, www.espn.com. May 10, 2011.

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• I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.

  Svetlana Boginskaya

  Ballet, Realizing, Known

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• I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet

  Shannon Miller

  Country, Thinking, Talking

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• As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Teenager, Weight, Body

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• I mean, I take that with the biggest amount of pride there could possibly be because I have so many idols of gymnasts that were before me. I think having perspective now on how hard it is for all of the starts to line up for something like that to happen, I'm just very proud of that moment and that whole atmosphere.

  Kim Zmeskal

  Mean, Pride, Thinking

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• Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

  Shannon Miller

  Attitude, Gymnastics, Being Positive

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• I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

  Olga Korbut

  Courage, Giving Up, Thinking

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• The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Reading, Sleep

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• It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

  Shawn Johnson

  Funny, Sound, Lucky

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• 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

  Children, Gymnastics, Injury

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

  Miranda Kerr

  Used, Grew, Young

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• Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.

  Dennis Nurkse

  Art, Dark, Silence

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• It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Fall, Talking, Worry

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• First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport.

  Rozalia Galiyeva

  Sports, Gymnastics, Training

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• Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.

  Gina Gogean

  Gymnastics, Giving, Interviews

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• Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing being lazy, you will be lazy. If you keep practicing complaining, you will constantly complain. If you practice compassion, generosity, patience, working hard and having a bigger vision, you will become better at it with time because you will create the causes to become better. You are practicing to become better.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Successful

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• The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.

  Leon Uris

  Prayer, Men, Discipline

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• I was a gymnast for twelve or thirteen years. Then I got into surfing and now I paddle board and hike and do whatever I can. I think it's my love of the outdoors.

  Serinda Swan

  Thinking, Years, Surfing

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• I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

  Gene Kelly

  Athlete, College, Dancer

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• I was a gymnast for years.

  Kelly Preston

  Years

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• Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.

  Blaine Wilson

  Gymnastics, Yeah

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• I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

  Shawn Johnson

  Attention, Pay, Over It

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• Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Character, Ribs, Stories

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• 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

  Girlfriend, Gymnastics, Bronze Medal

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Mind, Study

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