When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

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

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

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

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

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

No competition, no progress.

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.

The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

I have no ill feelings for nobody, I wish everybody the best, and I'm cool with everybody.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.