Gymnastics Quotes · Page 5

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Mads Mikkelsen

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

— Shawn Johnson

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

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

— Laurie Hernandez

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

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little…

— Andy Rooney

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

— Shannon Miller

Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics…

— Jaime Pressly

When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for…

— Amy Chow

If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one…

— Olga Korbut

Gymnastics gives you the abs. It's not like I sit there doing like a thousand crunches before every practice or something like…

— Sam Mikulak

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

— Jonathan Horton

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

— Mary Lou Retton

I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like…

— Jonathan Horton

I started in radio. I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying…

— Joe Buck

For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going…

— Gabby Douglas

My mom was always like, "If you love it, do it. If she's actually having fun, and I know that my kid…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body. When I was 6 or 7,…

— Ali Krieger

Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the…

— Colin Farrell

I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball,…

— Mads Mikkelsen

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

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Shawn Johnson

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

— Shawn Johnson

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

“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

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

— Nadia Comaneci

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did.

— Laurie Hernandez

“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.

— Dominique Moceanu