Top 30 Ex Gymnast Quotes
#1. I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
Gwendoline Christie
#2. I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
Gabby Douglas
#3. Holly slides off the chairlift like a gymnast, and I slide off like a sack of hammers.
David Mitchell
#4. Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.
Nita Leland
#5. 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
#6. I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography.
David Carradine
#7. I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
Shawn Johnson
#8. Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.
Jaime Pressly
#9. But then - I was just following him in reverie over mountain and valley - he jumped with both feet onto the middle of my body. I shuddered with wild pain, utterly uncomprehending. Who was it? A child? A gymnast? A daredevil? A suicide? A tempter? An annihilator?
Franz Kafka
#10. I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.
Bobby Fischer
#11. I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words.
Kristin Kreuk
#12. I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.
Shawn Johnson
#13. I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I was a trampoline gymnast. I had actually won nationals in my age group. So it was like one of those perfect, unbelievable miracles.
Nate Torrence
#14. I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.
Helena Bonham Carter
#15. Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.
Blaine Wilson
#17. Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.
Gina Gogean
#18. I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court.
Craig Ferguson
#19. I was a gymnast for twelve or thirteen years. Then I got into surfing and now I paddle board and hike and do whatever I can. I think it's my love of the outdoors.
Serinda Swan
#20. Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
Bill Gates
#22. I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was a very competitive (and stressed out!) gymnast before getting into entertainment, but it was never the actual gymnastics that was my true love. I loved the performing aspect of it all.
Rachele Brooke Smith
#23. Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.
Nathan East
#24. I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
Mads Mikkelsen
#25. I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I'm known as a graceful gymnast.
Svetlana Boginskaya
#26. Mind you, I'm a fine one to talke. I mean, I killed myself and just look at me now: I'm a qualified pilot, I can escape from a cockpit in five metres of water and I'm halfway up a mountain with a nutty gymnast who wants to chuck herself off the edge.
Steve Voake
#27. I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.
Nastia Liukin
#28. When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.
Miranda Kerr
#29. I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio.
Nina Dobrev
#30. I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.
Laura Donnelly
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