How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

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.

Its better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.

I am not sad because I do not have you, I am sad because I don't have love.

Relaxation and anxiety are incompatible responses that cannot coexist.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.