Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Feather

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.

Olga Korbut

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

Olga Korbut

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.

Elizabeth Taylor

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

Shannon Miller

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

Jonathan Horton

It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

Francois Fenelon

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

Malaika Arora Khan

I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

Han Xiaopeng

Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.

Aristotle

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Suzanne Yoculan

There is no greatness without taking risks.

Suzanne Yoculan

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

Svetlana khorkina

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

Victoria Jackson

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.

Shawn Johnson

In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

Shawn Johnson

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

Shawn Johnson

Gymnastics is so complex.

Shawn Johnson

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

Shawn Johnson

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

Shawn Johnson

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

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

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

Shawn Johnson

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

Shawn Johnson

I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.

Shawn Johnson

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

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

Robert Browning

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

Nolan Gerard Funk

I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

McKayla Maroney

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

Meghan O'Rourke

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

Mia Hamm

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

Karla Souza

I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.