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I was a gymnast for years. -- Kelly Preston
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. -- Bill Gates
As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain. -- Alicia Sacramone
As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs. -- Dominique Moceanu
As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age. -- Miranda Kerr
Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers. -- Alicia Sacramone
I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles. -- Helena Bonham Carter
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
I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10. -- Pamela Anderson
Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast. -- Gina Gogean
As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport. -- Nadia Comaneci
I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!' -- Gabby Douglas
If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out. -- Mia Hamm
Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. -- Vladislav Rastorotsky
I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it. -- Shawn Johnson
Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good. -- Blaine Wilson
Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion. -- Svetlana Boginskaya
I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut. -- Bobby Fischer
When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall. -- Miranda Kerr
I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts. -- Mads Mikkelsen
I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport. -- Shawn Johnson
I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast. -- Mads Mikkelsen
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine. -- Gwendoline Christie
I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography. -- David Carradine
I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally. -- Gene Kelly
I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally. -- Gene Kelly
You do see some people that can contort themselves all the way around, but they may have been practicing for years, they may be gymnasts or they may just be flexible. -- Jayne Middlemiss
Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind. -- Joe Biden
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
I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio. -- Nina Dobrev
The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great. -- Bela Karolyi
It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more. -- Shawn Johnson
I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court. -- Craig Ferguson
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
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films. -- Mads Mikkelsen
[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts think if their arm is bent a little it doesn't matter, but Nemov understands it matters. -- Peter Vidmar
Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old. -- Dominique Dawes
My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training. -- Dominique Moceanu
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
I get a lot of flak for it... people saying [my body] is not normal for a girl... But I'm okay with it. I think it's because I was a gymnast for eight years, from ages four to 12. My body was made before my bones were fully grown. Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses. -- Pink
I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that. -- Mads Mikkelsen
I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion. -- Rodney Yee
I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the floor. I was terrible at everything else, especially beam. Unfortunately, you can't be a gymnast unless you're good at all of the apparatuses, so I became a competitive cheerleader. I was just the main tumbler for my squad. -- Josie Loren
I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I'm known as a graceful gymnast. -- Svetlana Boginskaya
I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when I do stunts. -- Mads Mikkelsen
Part of being a good gymnast is being very disciplined - you have to know how to train right, eat right, sleep right. -- Jonathan Horton
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up. -- Olga Korbut
I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words. -- Kristin Kreuk
Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills. -- Nathan East
I was a gymnast for twelve or thirteen years. Then I got into surfing and now I paddle board and hike and do whatever I can. I think it's my love of the outdoors. -- Serinda Swan
First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport. -- Rozalia Galiyeva

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