Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. — Shawn Johnson
Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics. — Suzanne Yoculan
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. — Shannon Miller
As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain. — Alicia Sacramone
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. — Andy Rooney
I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty. — Betsey Johnson
I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it. — Shawn Johnson
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best. — Robert Browning
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. — Nadia Comaneci
As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport. — Nadia Comaneci
Gymnastic Image Quotes
Rhythmic Gymnastic Quotes
I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio. — Nina Dobrev
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
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
Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life — Kateryna Serebrianska
Please keep watching rhythmic gymnastics in spite of its situation. If you quit watching it, rhythmic gymnastics will not exist any longer. Your eyes are much more important than judge's are. — Teodora Alexandrova
Good Gymnastic Quotes
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. — Kerri Strug
Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life. — Shawn Johnson
Heart is what separates the good from the great. — Michael Jordan
I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport. — Shawn Johnson
Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. — Vladislav Rastorotsky
Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me. — Olga Korbut
When it comes to gymnastics, you can be 30 points ahead going into that competition, but on that day, it's all about luck. It's about who has a good day, who stays healthy, it's how happy the judges are that day, there are so many different factors. — Shawn Johnson
Part of being a good gymnast is being very disciplined - you have to know how to train right, eat right, sleep right. — Jonathan Horton
Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good. — Blaine Wilson
Above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times. — Shannon Miller
Inspirational Gymnastics Quotes
It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil. — Epictetus
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
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! — Thomas a Kempis
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. — Helen Keller
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. — Albert Einstein
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail. — Vince Lombardi
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows. — Olga Korbut
I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too. — Jasmine Tookes
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
It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it. — Simone Biles
Gymnast Quotes
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
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too. — Merce Cunningham
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. — Shawn Johnson
For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.' — Gabby Douglas
So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the kitchen. You see an éclair in the receptacle... and you think to yourself: "What the hell, I'll just eat some trash." — Jerry Seinfeld
There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips. — Hermann Buhl
We all have limitations. I don't have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don't have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports. — Jocko Willink
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
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
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. — Carlos Gavito
Gymnasium Quotes
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. — Mary Kay Blakely
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. — Mary Blakely
My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine. — Caroline Rhea
I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person. — Tim Roth
Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world. — Swami Vivekananda
It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium — Dick Trickle
Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home. — Joseph Pilates
The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands. — Jimmy Breslin
I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern. — Muhammad Ali
The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once. — Jean Paul
Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music. — Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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
My new shorty got a gymnastic back,
'87 emerald green on a classic Jag.
She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad;
She had the club foot, with that little arm,
I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm. — Action Bronson
I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting. — Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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. — Gal Gadot
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school. — Mads Mikkelsen
From what my friends tell me, apparently some guys can be pretty intimidated by me when they find out what I do. I find it funny because I try to be modest and I don't like to talk about gymnastics unless I am asked about it. But my roommates always take on my bragging rights and tell my life story to the guys we meet, which leaves me blushing. — Alicia Sacramone
Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive. — Mads Mikkelsen
In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago. — Lavinia Milosovici
I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles. — Helena Bonham Carter
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
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy. — Plato
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. — Nadia Comaneci
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. — Shannon Miller
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. — Bill Gates
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. — Alicia Sacramone
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