Quotes About Gymnastics

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.

The desperation to support an untenable position to which one is nonetheless committed has caused centuries of extreme mental gymnastics.

I'm training my left hand to write, in case I lose the ability in my right. That's gymnastics for the dying.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.

I didn't think of it as lying. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a travelling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics

We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.

Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.

Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

Gymnasts develop fears about certain moves and get hang-ups about doing routines at meets or anxiety about certain rivals who can psych them out.

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.

I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.

First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport.

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

I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.