Quotes About Athletics

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

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

Gymnastics is so complex.

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

Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

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

I've always had an undeniable love for gymnastics.

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

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

I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

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.

I think it would've been a little easier if I grew up in America; they've got better conditions for basketball players. At the same time, many people have said to me that having to start playing so late helped me not pick up bad habits.

I don't think I could hack it in the 200m.

No one has said, 'What are you doing still playing?' Everyone said, 'Play as long as possible.' You stop when you stop enjoying it, and I'll know when I've had enough and can't keep up with the boys.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.

There are Hall of Famers at 5'11'' and 5'9''.

I was on my way to becoming a Hall of Famer and having my name in the rafters, but three surgeries in 14 months, that is not good. I wasn't the same player.

My numbers are Hall of Fame.

Even when I wasn't a shooter, when I was younger, I used to watch Rip Hamilton. He was one of my favorite players with the way he moved without the ball.

He (coach) looks for size, speed being rare among Norwegians and Germans, and for malleability or what he calls attitude.

I don't understand American football. If you're going to line a bunch of behemoths up in front of a bunch of other behemoths and ask them to hit each other as hard as they can, why tell them they can only hit one another a certain way? Too many rules, that's the problem.

Sports evolved through sexual selection, but they are not crude sexual displays.