Gymnastics Quotes · Page 4

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

— Shawn Johnson

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

— Alistair Cooke

I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!

— Svetlana Khorkina

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.

— Dmitry Bilozerchev

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

— Bela Karolyi

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

— Shawn Johnson

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

— Malaika Arora Khan

“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of…

— Shah Asad Rizvi

My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the…

— Neon Hitch

I was encouraged to use my voice and explore my passions outside of the sport. And when I did that, I was…

— Katelyn Ohashi

I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these…

— Nadia Comaneci

After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something…

— David Boudia

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

— Shawn Johnson

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I…

— Dominique Moceanu

Gymnastics, you get one shot; acting, it's like, do it again, do it again, do it again. So that was the one…

— McKayla Maroney

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the…

— Jennie Finch

I definitely want to put my kids in gymnastics at an early age, whether that's what they want to or not. Gymnastics…

— Sam Mikulak

I could have never been a high diver or a gymnast because I don't like subjectivity. I love where I'm faster than…

— Shannon Sharpe

And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a…

— Shannon Miller

There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives,…

— Shannon Miller

I was incredibly supple and did gymnastics as well. So half of my injuries are because I am over-supple and the joints…

— Darcey Bussell

I mean, I take that with the biggest amount of pride there could possibly be because I have so many idols of…

— Kim Zmeskal

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

— Kristin Kreuk

I want to learn skiing and parallel bar gymnastics.

— Sushmita Sen

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

— Shawn Johnson

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

— Nadia Comaneci

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.

— Raj Bhavsar

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

— Honore de Balzac

I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven.

— Laurie Hernandez

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.

— Shawn Johnson

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when I do stunts.

— Mads Mikkelsen

Being able to do something that I love and be at such a high level of gymnastics is just amazing.

— Laurie Hernandez

As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev.

— Li Ning

While I love college gymnastics, I'd like to try and compete for my country.

— MyKayla Skinner

I think that to be a competitive athlete, you have to be goal-oriented.

— Shannon Miller

“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance”

— Shah Asad Rizvi