Top 60 Gymnast Quotes
#1. I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.
Mads Mikkelsen
#2. Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Vladislav Rastorotsky
#3. My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.
Dominique Moceanu
#4. The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to.
Ludmilla Tourischeva
#6. One shorter woman had written 'Gymnast' and another had written 'Mareen Biologest'.
Ten bucks said that she wasn't one - those bif fake breasts would make it impossible for her to stay under the water.
Jessica Clare
#7. 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
#9. As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.
Dominique Moceanu
#10. When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
Tamara Ecclestone
#11. If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.
Shannon Miller
#12. Maybe she's a gymnast with superior muscle control."
"She'd have to be in Cirque de Soleil to manage this.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#13. I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.
Olga Korbut
#14. 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.
Bela Karolyi
#15. As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.
Alicia Sacramone
#16. I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
Gabby Douglas
#17. I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
Mads Mikkelsen
#18. A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.
Frederick Lenz
#19. I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.
Gene Kelly
#20. Part of being a good gymnast is being very disciplined - you have to know how to train right, eat right, sleep right.
Jonathan Horton
#21. First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport.
Rozalia Galiyeva
#22. I actually sing horribly, but I used to dance pretty good. I was a gymnast, and you can usually use those gymnastic tricks with dance. Plus, they're so much fun to do. That wasn't really a big part of my career. It was just a phase.
Robert Englund
#23. Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.
Alicia Sacramone
#24. I don't want to be considered a gymnast anymore.
Mitch Gaylord
#25. It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.
Shawn Johnson
#26. If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.
Mia Hamm
#27. As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
Nadia Comaneci
#28. As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.
Miranda Kerr
#30. I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.
Laura Donnelly
#31. 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
#32. Holly slides off the chairlift like a gymnast, and I slide off like a sack of hammers.
David Mitchell
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.
Bobby Fischer
#39. 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
#40. I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.
Shawn Johnson
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.
Blaine Wilson
#44. Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.
Gina Gogean
#45. I uncurled my legs and pushed until I had both arms fully extended and both legs straight up in the air. My dress fell down over my head, so if any of our neighbors were up and about, they saw more than just me going all Russian gymnast on our fence.
Rachel Hawkins
#46. 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
#47. When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.
Miranda Kerr
#48. 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
#49. I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I'm known as a graceful gymnast.
Svetlana Boginskaya
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#58. 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
#59. I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.
Nastia Liukin
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