Top 100 Quotes About Gymnastics
#1. 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
#2. There are interviewers who try to trip up the candidate," says Hanold. "If you make people do intellectual gymnastics, you're not getting their true self. There is no right answer to any question I ask. I want an authentic response." To
Ethan F. Becker
#3. My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.
Gabby Douglas
#4. 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
#5. If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
William Feather
#6. Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.
Svetlana Boginskaya
#7. It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.
Jonathan Horton
#8. We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.
Betty Okino
#9. Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.
Shawn Johnson
#10. I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
Nadia Comaneci
#11. My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.
Kerri Strug
#12. Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.
Aly Raisman
#13. I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
Dominique Moceanu
#14. One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."
Albert Azaryan
#15. I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future.
Nina Dobrev
#16. There's a point in gymnastics where once you get to a certain age your body just isn't going to be able to handle it anymore. But I'd like to continue on as long as I'm able to help the team out and be a contributor to the success of the U.S. team.
Jonathan Horton
#17. I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.
Ashley Scott
#18. When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#19. I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.
Kyle Shewfelt
#20. 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
#21. Don't get smart or sarcastic
He snaps back just like elastic
Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics
We break wise guys just like matchsticks
Elvis Costello
#23. I did rhythmic gymnastics and I absolutely adored it. I was in the squad for Sussex. I wasn't stupendous, but it was something that I was good at and I really loved the combination of discipline and expression. That, to me, was just dreamy.
Gwendoline Christie
#24. My mom was always like, "If I know that my kid is having fun, she's gonna do whatever she wants. Whether that's gymnastics, learning the car, acting or just being a normal kid, she's gonna do what makes her happy." That's how I've always lived my life.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#25. 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
#26. Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
Peter McWilliams
#27. I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
Earl King
#28. 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
#30. We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.
Massimiliano Gioni
#31. Better health is more important than beauty and with better health comes beauty.
Auliq Ice
#32. That was what gymnastics did, though. It aged girls and kept them young forever at the same time. And
Megan Abbott
#33. The harder we work now, the easier it will be later.
Elise Ray
#34. I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.
Ecaterina Szabo
#35. If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
Olga Korbut
#36. The darkest of men carry the brightest of lights
Joe Putignano
#37. Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.
Olga Korbut
#38. Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.
Nastia Liukin
#39. I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.
Jessye Norman
#40. Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort ... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.
Peter Vidmar
#41. This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.
Olga Korbut
#42. But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
Olga Korbut
#43. I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
Liang Chow
#44. Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.
Dmitry Bilozerchev
#45. Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.
Shannon Miller
#46. In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.
Cathy Rigby
#47. After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.
David Boudia
#48. I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.
Serinda Swan
#49. My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.
Shawn Johnson
#50. I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.
Wilson Bethel
#51. I pole-dance. I do. I do it at an aerobics center. Having done gymnastics for 13 years, I find it's one of the only things where I can still use my core and all my muscles. Plus, it's fun: You're a girl, and you get to dance around a pole!
Serinda Swan
#52. Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.
Robert Lipsyte
#53. There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.
Shannon Miller
#54. In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.
McKayla Maroney
#55. Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.
Blaine Wilson
#56. Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.
Dominique Moceanu
#57. There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.
Shannon Miller
#58. When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.
Shawn Johnson
#59. I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
Jacob Dalton
#61. I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
Dan Millman
#62. Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.
Brandy Johnson
#63. I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that I realized my accomplishments would not have been possible without my type of body, and I finally started to appreciate and celebrate myself.
Dominique Dawes
#64. It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.
Henry Clay Payne
#65. Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.
Raj Bhavsar
#66. Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast.
Gina Gogean
#67. I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
Olivia Cooke
#68. 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
#69. Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it.
Nastia Liukin
#70. It's a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I'm going to come out with next - and neither do I.
Sid Waddell
#71. Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
Shawn Johnson
#72. It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
Plato
#73. I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
Shawn Johnson
#74. Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.
Shawn Johnson
#75. I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.
Bruno Grandi
#76. Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.
Olga Korbut
#77. If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.
Shannon Miller
#78. A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
Shawn Johnson
#79. 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
#80. It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.
Dominique Moceanu
#82. Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid. I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.
Jenny Han
#83. Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.
Han Xiaopeng
#84. It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
Jacob Dalton
#85. We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
Facundo Pieres
#86. I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body, when I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years.
Ali Krieger
#87. My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.
Caroline Rhea
#88. The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
Madeleine Albright
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.
Mitsuo Tsukahara
#93. I'm always smiling, always waving. I'm just a natural show-off.
Kristie Phillips
#94. Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.
James Russell Lowell
#96. I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!
Dominique Moceanu
#97. Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.
Shannon Miller
#98. What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance.
Gwendoline Christie
#99. I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.
Shawn Johnson
#100. After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
Shawn Johnson
