Gymnastics Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.

  Olena Vitrychenko

  Thinking, Judging, Champion

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

  Neshka Robeva

  Thinking, Judging, Style

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

  Jonathan Horton

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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

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• I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

  Li Ang

  Thinking, Would Be, Lessons

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• Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.

  Carly Patterson

  Goal, Looks, Athens

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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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• If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

  Olga Korbut

  Motivational, Sports, Feels

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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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• I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

  Ashley Scott

  Trainers

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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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• Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Motivational, Positive, Focus And Concentration

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• I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day.

  Gabby Douglas

  Girl, College, Want

  Source: pridepublishinggroup.com

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• As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Athlete

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• I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.

  Aly Raisman

  Athlete, Thinking, Pushing

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• I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was a very competitive (and stressed out!) gymnast before getting into entertainment, but it was never the actual gymnastics that was my true love. I loved the performing aspect of it all.

  Rachele Brooke Smith

  Phoenix, Stressed, Arizona

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I don't believe that there's anyone in the world without a competitive bone in their body.

  Shannon Miller

  Believe, World, Body

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• Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

  Olga Korbut

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Addiction

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