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
I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
— V.E Schwab
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
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.
— Amy Chow
The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
— Mark Rippetoe
I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.
— Olga Korbut
Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.
— David Mitchell
Movements are as eloquent as words.
— Isadora Duncan
It is fine to be all focused on gymnastics if that is what you want to do, but once you are finished with gymnastics, what are you going to do?
— Amy Chow
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
I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.
— Bruno Grandi
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
Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days.
Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!! — Sylvia Day
Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!! — Sylvia Day
It's nice to have a medal, but we were hoping for a gold.
— Marta Karolyi