Elite Gymnastics Quotes

#1. In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

Shawn Johnson

#2. The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Lois Lowry

#3. I'm a fucking coward."
"Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.

Joe Abercrombie

#4. It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

Joseph Addison

#5. We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

Philip Gibbs

#6. In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

Stephen Carter

#7. Silence is not a langauge, its a weapon to make your dear one to feel

William Shakespeare

#8. There's something you should probably know." "Please don't tell me you had gender reassignment surgery. I don't think I can manage that today.

Helena Hunting

#9. Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

Shannon Miller

#10. Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.

Abdul Kalam

#11. Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.

Shawn Johnson

#12. Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#13. When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

Aly Raisman