Quotes About Gymnastics

I'm obsessed with gymnastics. It's like my football. And I like to watch women's gymnastics a little bit more than men's because I live for balance beam.

The joy had been ripped away from me, but deep down, I loved the competition floor. And I thought, 'Gymnastics is literally the only thing I have.'

I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.

When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years.

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

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

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.

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

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

I don't see myself coaching gymnastics. I see myself involved in the sport in the future but involved in other things as well.

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

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.

I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven.

I think everyone envisions what their life would be like if they were to live in this post-apocalyptic world. I love the idea of fighting every day to live, because it kind of applies to gymnastics; I feel like every day I need to be in control and focused and stay on edge.

I think gymnastics can be a really brutal sport. I don't think it's supposed to be a brutal sport.

I always wanted to be active, and I always wanted to perform. That's why I loved gymnastics.

At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.

It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!

Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it's a good different, and it's something that I've always wanted to try.

How I've always felt is that the fun in gymnastics got taken away from me too soon.