Gymnastics Quotes - Page 6

• When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.

  Chrisse Feros

  Motivational, Trying, Exhausted

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• I'm able to support my wife and family off of gymnastics. But at the same time I do take it very seriously - it is a job for me.

  Jonathan Horton

  Jobs, Wife, Support

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.

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• 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

  Sports, Wrestling, Thinking

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• 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

  Sports, Careers, My Family

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• My mom and dad were extremely supportive. But my mom, she definitely made a lot of sacrifices, specifically because she wasn't working at the time. She ended up going and finding a job so she could continue to put me through gymnastics.

  Jonathan Horton

  Mom, Jobs, Dad

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him?

  Primo Levi

  Men, Creation Of Man, Keys

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• I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

  Nolan Gerard Funk

  Thinking, Toddler

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• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• There's a point in gymnastics where once you get to a certain age your body just isn't going to be able to handle it anymore. But I'd like to continue on as long as I'm able to help the team out and be a contributor to the success of the U.S. team.

  Jonathan Horton

  Team, Long, Age

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'

  Gabby Douglas

  Winning, Thinking, People

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• Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Walking, Values

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• Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Justice, Diversity, Tree

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

  Shawn Johnson

  Strong, Broke, Made

  "Gymnastic Gold: Interview with Shawn Johnson and Her Mom, Teri". Interview by Ilyssa Panitz, www.parents.com.

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• 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

  Achievement

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• There are no limits on your dreams if you're willing to work for it.

  Shannon Miller

  Dream, Limits, Willing

  "Interview With Olympic Gold Medalist Shannon Miller". Interview with Jen Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

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• This is how [the] sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it. I was going to add [the] before the word sport since I thought was either a typo or a problem translating what she said, but then I thought it made sense without it too , so I left it as is. Just know that that's not a typo on my part.

  Svetlana Khorkina

  Sports, Discipline, Personality

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• 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

  Sports, Support, Risk

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• Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.

  Vera Caslavska

  Girl, Sports, Grace

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• 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

  Gone, Eras, Nostalgia

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• I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like do some type of broadcasting or commentating for gymnastics events on TV, or even give my insights as a gymnast into other sports; I'm kind of a sports junkie in general.

  Jonathan Horton

  Sports, Doors, Giving

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

  Marian Dragulescu

  Winning, Games, Gold

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• When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.

  Jonathan Horton

  Sports, Sacrifice, People

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

  Olga Korbut

  Tape, Life Is, Recorders

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• 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

  Country, Winning, Get Better

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• 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

  Winning, Thinking, Gold

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