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.

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.

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.

Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness.

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.

Let's fly away and live forever

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.