Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victoria Jackson

I could teach gymnastics if I didn't have any other profession.

Gymnastics is not a sport that most people do. It is unique but it helps a lot in other sports with strength, coordination and balance.

Kyle Shewfelt

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

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.

Ashley Scott

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

She's really motivated by the team format, and that makes her so much more valuable on her high school team. I think her gymnastics peak in time for the high school season. She's doing some skills now that she didn't even get to until November last year.

Aristotle

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

Bobby Fischer

I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.

Amy Chow

When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.

Pamela Anderson

I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

We had to start on the beam, and in gymnastics that's tough. There were a lot of butterflies and a lot of nerves, so we knew right away it was going to be a tough meet.

Amy Adams

I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

Bela Karolyi

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

Bela Karolyi

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

Bela Karolyi

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

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.

Jamie Foxx

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.

Isadora Duncan

Movements are as eloquent as words.

Gwendoline Christie

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 am really pleased with the level of gymnastics we are doing and where we are in this point of the season.

Miranda Kerr

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

Meghan O'Rourke

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

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.

Shannon Miller

Goals have to be realistic and flexible.

Shannon Miller

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

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

Shannon Miller

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

Shannon Miller

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

Shannon Miller

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through

Shannon Miller

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Svetlana khorkina

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

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.