Gymnastics Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Gymnastics
Gymnastics Quotes & Sayings
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The darkest of men carry the brightest of lights
— Joe Putignano
I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.
— Serinda Swan
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
— Madeleine Albright
Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
— Bela Karolyi
I want to bring more gymnastics on television.
— Shannon Miller
I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
— Malaika Arora Khan
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
— Kacy Catanzaro
That was what gymnastics did, though. It aged girls and kept them young forever at the same time. And
— Megan Abbott
I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
— Nadia Comaneci
Gymnastics is so complex.
— Shawn Johnson
The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.
— Neshka Robeva
I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.
— Wilson Bethel
[Dmitry Bilozerchev] is a genius of gymnastics.
— Grigory Misutin
What you can do, or think you can, begin it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What I like best is the competition itself.
— Elena Piskun
It's because you absolutely love the sport.
— Nastia Liukin
When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.
— Lavinia Agache
People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
— Shawn Johnson
It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
— Jacob Dalton
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
It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.
— Henry Clay Payne
Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.
— Aly Raisman
The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
— Mark Rippetoe
Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.
— David Mitchell
Movements are as eloquent as words.
— Isadora Duncan
Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
— Nadia Comaneci
I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
— Liang Chow
We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.
— Kristie Phillips
If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.
— Courtney Kupets
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
— Olga Korbut
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.
— Henrietta Onodi
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
— Shawn Johnson
There are no limits on your dreams if you're willing to work for it
— Shannon Miller
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.
— Jonathan Horton
I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.
— Ashley Scott
I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.
— Nolan Gerard Funk
Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.
— Dmitry Bilozerchev
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.
— Shawn Johnson
There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.
— Shannon Miller
Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.
— Brandy Johnson
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
— Shawn Johnson
The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.
— Cheng Fei
When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.
— Shannon Miller
I'm always smiling, always waving. I'm just a natural show-off.
— Kristie Phillips
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
— Peter McWilliams
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.
— William Feather
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
— Shawn Johnson
Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
— Shannon Miller
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
I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
— Gabby Douglas
When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.
— Chrisse Feros
Yoga is just gymnastics for uncoordinated people.
— Claire Dederer
Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.
— Shannon Miller
I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
— Dan Millman
I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.
— Mitsuo Tsukahara
I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.
— Oksana Chusovitina
In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.
— Shannon Miller
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.
— Olga Korbut
When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.
— Oksana Chusovitina
Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.
— Nastia Liukin
Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.
— Neshka Robeva
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
— Nadia Comaneci
I don't believe that there's anyone in the world without a competitive bone in their body.
— Shannon Miller
Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.
— Svetlana Boginskaya
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
— Shawn Johnson
Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
— Vladislav Rastorotsky
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
— Shawn Johnson
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.
— Shannon Miller
Put fire into your workout any you burn off worry and frustration!
— Suzanne Yoculan
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.
— Carly Patterson
I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
— Shawn Johnson
I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.
— Ecaterina Szabo
There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.
— Olga Korbut
I would like beautiful gymnastics to be recognized as the best. I want the judges to appreciate things that are not necessarily winning points.
— Kohei Uchimura
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
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
— Meghan O'Rourke
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
— Sam Ewing
But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
— Olga Korbut
It's nice to have a medal, but we were hoping for a gold.
— Marta Karolyi