Gymnastics Quotations | Page 3

If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

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.

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.

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

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

I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

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.

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.

I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.

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

All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations . . . work together.)

Don't make excuses, just get it done!

There is no such thing as failure, only partial success!

There is no greatness without taking risks.

Put fire into your workout any you burn off worry and frustration!

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

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

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.

The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored, rejected, and forgotten. No amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the past 50 years....The AMA has turned into a propaganda organ purveying 'medical politics' for deceiving the Congress, the people, and the doctors of America themselves.

If gymnastics were easy, it would be called football. 10% talent, 90% hard workEnergy and persistence conquer all things.

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

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

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.