Gymnastics Quotes - Page 4

• Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

  Heywood Broun

  Inspirational, Sports, Baseball

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

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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, People

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

  Blaine Wilson

  Gymnast, Yeah

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

  Guy Finley

  Motivation, Leap, Knows

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 15, 2013

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• Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

  Albert Einstein

  Ambition, Persistence, Long

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Kids, Years

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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, College, Married

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• I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

  Nadia Comaneci

  School, Age, Firsts

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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.

  Francois Fenelon

  Men, Criticism, Trying

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

  Shawn Johnson

  People, Olympics, Tvs

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• Gymnastics is so complex.

  Shawn Johnson

  Complexes

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• 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

  Beautiful, Sports, Denial

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• All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations . . . work together.)

  Suzanne Yoculan

  Team, Heart, Hands

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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, Being Positive, Negative

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• You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

  Aly Raisman

  Strength, Adversity, Good Day

  "Aly Raisman's Tips For Going After What You Want" by Macey Hall, www.seventeen.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.

  Dmitry Bilozerchev

  Motivational, Hair, Elements

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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, Competition, My Own

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

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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, Winning, Knowing

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• Above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.

  Shannon Miller

  Passion, Fighting, Fake

  "Shannon Miller: 'I Was Intimidated By Everything, Except Being On The Balance Beam'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, www.celebritybabyscoop.com. January 13, 2010.

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• Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

  Robert Browning

  Break, Endeavor, Be Good

  Robert Browning (1909). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Red cotton night-cap country. Aristophanes' apology, etc”

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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

  Important, Doe, Helping

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• 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, Shining

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• By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty.

  Svetlana Boginskaya

  Sports, Athlete, Want

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