Gymnastics Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!

  Svetlana Khorkina

  Easy

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• What I like best is the competition itself.

  Elena Piskun

  Competition

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• The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to.

  Ludmilla Tourischeva

  Trying, Moments, Concentration

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• In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.

  Lavinia Milosovici

  Sports, Hero, Winning

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• Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

  Henrietta Onodi

  Soccer, Sports, Example

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• I think that to be a competitive athlete, you have to be goal-oriented.

  Shannon Miller

  Athlete, Thinking, Goal

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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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• So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong.

  Shannon Miller

  Thinking, Succeed, Enough

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

  Ashley Scott

  Trainers

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• From what my friends tell me, apparently some guys can be pretty intimidated by me when they find out what I do. I find it funny because I try to be modest and I don't like to talk about gymnastics unless I am asked about it. But my roommates always take on my bragging rights and tell my life story to the guys we meet, which leaves me blushing.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Bragging Rights, Guy, Trying

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.

  Nastia Liukin

  Sports, Giving, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.

  Neon Hitch

  Fire, Community, Festivals

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You want to picture yourself being on top and doing amazing gymnastics.

  Gabby Douglas

  Want

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