Great Gymnastics Quotes

#1. When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

Oksana Chusovitina

#2. Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.

Amanda Borden

#3. It's rare to see a man step up and say "I can be a great father and learn about gymnastics with my daughter and take her to dance lessons because I love her." I can make time to blow bubbles on the back porch. It doesn't cause your man card to be revoked.

Dan Alatorre

#4. Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.

Blaine Wilson

#5. Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

Shannon Miller

#6. Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.

Carly Patterson

#7. By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty.

Svetlana Boginskaya

#8. Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job.

Jonathan Horton

#9. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

Shawn Johnson