Gymnastics Quotes - Page 7

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Walking, Values

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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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• The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

  Aristotle

  People, Principles, Minorities

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• 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

  Birthday, Kids, Class

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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, Bronze Medal, Years

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

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• Mentally there's no question about whether I still like the sport and love doing it. I think it's pretty clear to everyone here that I love the sport. I love doing gymnastics and I love performing. So that's not really a question.

  Samantha Peszek

  Sports, Thinking, And Love

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• Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days. Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!!

  Sylvia Day

  Today, Thanks, Mattresses

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• Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Motivational, Positive, Focus And Concentration

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• Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

  Marva Collins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Failure, Adversity

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• 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

  Dance, Hands, Ease

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

  Lowell Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together.

  Tony Dungy

  Motivational, Teamwork, Hard Work

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• The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.

  Neshka Robeva

  Girl, Eye, Champion

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• When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

  Oksana Chusovitina

  What Matters, Years, Asking

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• 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

  Workout, Two, Ballet

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• 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

  Memories, Intellectual, Bread

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.119

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• The rumor is that when I was younger, I didn't like to sweat and I didn't like to run, and both of those things are kind of important in tennis. I was introduced to a lot of sports as a child: I did gymnastics, figure skating, tennis and golf, and I dabbled a little bit in ballet. I just never fell in love with tennis the way I did with golf.

  Jessica Korda

  Sports, Running, Children

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.

  Shannon Miller

  Sports, Scar, Injury

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• 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

  Mean, Science, Light

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Daughter, Mother, Personality

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• Please keep watching rhythmic gymnastics in spite of its situation. If you quit watching it, rhythmic gymnastics will not exist any longer. Your eyes are much more important than judge's are.

  Teodora Alexandrova

  Eye, Judging, Important

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• Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.

  Neshka Robeva

  Thinking, Judging, Style

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• 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

  Important, Realizing, I Can

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