Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carly Patterson

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.

Honore de Balzac

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Herbert Kaufman

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

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.

Jonathan Horton

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.

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.

Primo Levi

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him?

Han Xiaopeng

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

Neon Hitch

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.

Mary Lou Retton

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

Mitch Gaylord

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

Mia Hamm

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

Nadia Comaneci

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

Nadia Comaneci

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

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

Kerri Strug

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

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.