Top 22 Bela Karolyi Quotes

#1. The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

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#2. This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

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#3. I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

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#4. What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.

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#5. I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

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#6. What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.

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#7. My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters.

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#8. What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.

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#9. A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

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

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#11. I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

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#12. Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

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#13. I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

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#14. I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

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#15. In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

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#16. Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.

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#17. The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.

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#18. I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.

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#19. I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism.

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#20. The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

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#21. You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

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#22. Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

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