Gymnastics Quotes

Gymnastics Quote of the day

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.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

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.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

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.

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.

Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

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."

The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it.

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

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.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.

I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

Wake up every day knowing that today is a new day and only you can determine the outcome of that day. So dream big, accept the challenge, and never look back.

I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.

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.

Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.

The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and moral stresses which not even all grown-ups could bear.

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.

Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

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.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.