Quotes About Gymnastics

I couldn't come back to gymnastics because the floors were too dusty for my health.

I'm enjoying gymnastics. Having people there to cheer you on is an amazing feeling and such a cool opportunity.

If anyone asks me, 'Should you do college gymnastics?' I'd say do it. I'm glad I decided to take this route.

While I love college gymnastics, I'd like to try and compete for my country.

My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.

Every science seeks certain principles and causes for each of its objects—e.g. medicine and gymnastics and each of the other sciences, whether productive or mathematical. For each of these marks off a certain class of things for itself and busies itself about this as about something existing and real—not however qua real; the science that does this is another distinct from these.

Don't get smart or sarcastic He snaps back just like elastic Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics We break wise guys just like matchsticks

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

I would like beautiful gymnastics to be recognized as the best. I want the judges to appreciate things that are not necessarily winning points.

The hardest for me is rings because it is a lot more strength-oriented, while all the other events are about fluidity and flexibility. It's the one event that doesn't coincide with the fluidity, which is my strength.

I love my height because when I'm doing gymnastics, it really benefits the sport - and also, I think being short is kind of cute.

Teamwork. That's the biggest lesson you can learn from competing in NCAA gymnastics. Everyone just has to work together, you have to trust in everyone, and everyone has to push you to become the gymnast you want to be.

I knew when I started gymnastics, I wanted to have a lot of fun and eventually go to the Olympics. On the moments where I felt really down, I just remembered, 'You're almost there. Just keep going. Keep working hard.'

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

I'm 24, which I know doesn't sound very old. But in the world of gymnastics it is. The Tokyo Games are my last shot to compete as a gymnast for Team USA, and my last shot at winning a gold medal.

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

Art is an institution to which we turn when we want to feel a shock of surprise. We feel this want because we sense that it is good for us once in a while to receive a healthy jolt. Otherwise we would so easily get stuck in a rut and could no longer adapt to the new demands that life is apt to make on us. The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected.

I was incredibly supple and did gymnastics as well. So half of my injuries are because I am over-supple and the joints could always go that little bit further. But I was happy to push, and I have no regrets. That is important to say.

It's just so weird coming into the gym and not feeling like, you know, 'I'm going to die.' Before it was like, 'I've got to hit that routine or I'm going to get yelled at.' So it's just been really nice to kind of relax a little bit and be able to really focus on gymnastics and get to enjoy it more.

The most fun is the high bar - I just like the adrenaline rush of doing the high-flying releases.

I'd always been fairly sporty. At school I got involved in everything: netball, hockey, cross-country, athletics and I competed in the north east championships. I did a lot of gymnastics when I was younger and then got into my dancing.

I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.

Worlds helped me me boost my confidence up a lot actually. It made me a bigger, better, stronger gymnast.