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.
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.
Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.
I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.
Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.
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.
Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.
I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
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
Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job.
I'm able to support my wife and family off of gymnastics. But at the same time I do take it very seriously - it is a job for me.
When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.
There's a point in gymnastics where once you get to a certain age your body just isn't going to be able to handle it anymore. But I'd like to continue on as long as I'm able to help the team out and be a contributor to the success of the U.S. team.
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.
It was definitely a big change in my life going from the college scene to really kind of being on my own. I got married and moved to Houston and started a whole new journey. It was scary in a way, but what's great for me is just focusing on gymnastics and my wife. I'm really able to put 100% into what my goals are.
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.
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.
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.
I did rhythmic gymnastics and I absolutely adored it. I was in the squad for Sussex. I wasn't stupendous, but it was something that I was good at and I really loved the combination of discipline and expression. That, to me, was just dreamy.
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.
