Gym Quotes - Page 2

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

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.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it.

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

Everything I do is in the gym so I'm always in gym clothes.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.

With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

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.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?