Comaneci Quotes

#1. ... that your are the prime driver of your life. The world is malleable enough to be shaped by you. To lead a better life you just have to work harder, or use more willpower, or make better decisions.

David Brooks

#2. Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

Nadia Comaneci

#3. Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars

Nadia Comaneci

#4. Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Nadia Comaneci

#6. I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

Nadia Comaneci

#7. Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Nadia Comaneci

#8. It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

Nadia Comaneci

#9. I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

Nadia Comaneci

#10. Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

Nadia Comaneci

#11. I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

Nadia Comaneci

#12. I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

Marcelo Garcia

#13. As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

Nadia Comaneci

#14. For some people life outside the spotlight is death.

Nadia Comaneci

#15. Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Confucius

#16. I hate that word. It's return
a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

Billy Wilder

#17. We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

Nadia Comaneci

#18. Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

Nadia Comaneci

#19. Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

Rita Ora

#20. One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

Nadia Comaneci

#21. If depression was a choice, no one would choose it. Depression is not a choice.

Northern Adams

#22. It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them ... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show ... I had like five surgeries.

Phillip Phillips

#23. Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

Pam Houston

#24. I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot

Nadia Comaneci

#25. When I started doing television, I thought that I would change the way that I shot, the way that I blocked, and the technical side of it. You're not going to change your relationship with the actors or how you approach the characters. That wasn't any different.

Len Wiseman

#26. If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.

Nadia Comaneci

#27. When you fall, leap to your feet and try again.

Nadia Comaneci

#28. I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Nadia Comaneci

#29. My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

Nadia Comaneci

#30. My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

Nadia Comaneci

#31. I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

Nadia Comaneci

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

Nadia Comaneci

#33. I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

Nadia Comaneci

#34. I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.

Nadia Comaneci

#35. The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

Sam Zell