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Gymnastics is so complex. -- Shawn Johnson
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. -- Shawn Johnson
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. -- Shawn Johnson
Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew. -- Shannon Miller
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
Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me. -- Amanda Borden
Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways. -- Dominique Moceanu
Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job. -- Jonathan Horton
Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ. -- Aly Raisman
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well. -- Henrietta Onodi
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
Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life. -- Shawn Johnson
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
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
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
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
Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls. -- Dominique Moceanu
Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that. -- Shannon Miller
Chess is intellectual gymnastics. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
Genius is eternal patience. -- Michelangelo
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. -- Malcolm Forbes
I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it. -- Amy Adams
I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field. -- Mia Hamm
Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved. -- Dmitry Bilozerchev
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best. -- Robert Browning
In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way. -- Shannon Miller
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor. -- Dan Millman
Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition. -- Nadia Comaneci
Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. -- Vladislav Rastorotsky
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. -- Benjamin Jowett
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill
Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again. -- Shannon Miller
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. -- Sam Ewing
People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating. -- Shawn Johnson
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. -- Herbert Kaufman
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. -- Nadia Comaneci
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. -- Helen Keller
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. -- Francois Fenelon
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. -- William J. H. Boetcker
I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt. -- Gabby Douglas
If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it. -- Courtney Kupets
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. -- Madeleine Albright
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. -- Shawn Johnson
I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well. -- Shawn Johnson
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else. -- William Feather
I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years. -- Nicole Anderson
I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission. -- Nadia Comaneci
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I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done. -- Mike Ditka
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
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
I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't. -- Olga Korbut
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore. -- Olga Korbut
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. -- Victoria Jackson
It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking. -- Shawn Johnson
Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me. -- Olga Korbut
And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics. -- Shannon Miller
I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting. -- Aaron Johnson
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come. -- Jennie Finch
Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. -- Amanda Borden
I will always love gymnastics. -- Sophie Nelisse
But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics. -- Olga Korbut
[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics. -- Grigory Misutin
I want to bring more gymnastics on television. -- Shannon Miller
The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar -- Mark Rippetoe
I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics. -- Dina Kochetkova
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. -- Shawn Johnson
I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation. -- Bela Karolyi
My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics. -- Kerri Strug
Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about. -- Bela Karolyi
Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting. -- Mitch Gaylord
Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed. -- Liang Chow
I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. -- Shawn Johnson
You want to picture yourself being on top and doing amazing gymnastics. -- Gabby Douglas
Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics. -- Han Xiaopeng
The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came. -- Bela Karolyi
I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer. -- Ashley Scott
Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics. -- Suzanne Yoculan
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Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it. -- Earl King
So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong. -- Shannon Miller
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does. -- Honore de Balzac
Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being. -- Raj Bhavsar
I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it. -- Lindsey Vonn
I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose. -- Kyle Shewfelt
If gymnastics were easy, it would be called football. 10% talent, 90% hard workEnergy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin
It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it. -- Simone Biles
My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do. -- Shawn Johnson
I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6. -- Nadia Comaneci
It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect. -- Jacob Dalton
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. -- Shawn Johnson
I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits. -- Kristin Kreuk
When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport. -- Nastia Liukin
I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things. -- Malaika Arora Khan
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In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through -- Shannon Miller
I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed. -- Liang Chow
I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed. -- Liang Chow
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
My ballsack drives me nuts. Jogging has got to be the floppiest sport. Definitely not for lovers. Gentlemen prefer gymnastics. -- Jarod Kintz
When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself. -- Shannon Miller
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice. -- Kacy Catanzaro
But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics. -- Olga Korbut
The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body. -- William Meade
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature. -- Aristotle
I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball. -- V. E. Schwab
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
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
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
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
I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut. -- Serinda Swan
I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics. -- Oksana Chusovitina
I would like beautiful gymnastics to be recognized as the best. I want the judges to appreciate things that are not necessarily winning points. -- Kohei Uchimura
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty. -- Olga Korbut
I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too. -- Jasmine Tookes
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

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