Gymnastics Quotes · Page 7

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

— Suzanne Yoculan

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

— Shannon Miller

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

— Nadia Comaneci

Gymnastics was my worth - it was my life - and I hated myself.

— Katelyn Ohashi

If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.

— Shannon Miller

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

— Olga Korbut

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

— Kyle Shewfelt

Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.

— Neshka Robeva

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and…

— Misty Copeland

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

It hurts my head, but it's fine because it's something I do every day. You can't avoid the gymnastics questions.

— Simone Biles

I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as…

— Olga Korbut

The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It…

— Bela Karolyi

It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

— Jacob Dalton

I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to…

— Olga Korbut

I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that…

— Dominique Dawes

Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics.…

— Anonymous

As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I…

— Amanda de Cadenet

What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes…

— Salman Khurshid

[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look…

— Peter Vidmar

I bought a Fitbit, actually, and I just thought it was going to be an awesome way to track how I live…

— Sam Mikulak

Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned…

— Shawn Johnson

In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime…

— Dominique Moceanu

“They’ll make a gymnastics team, bending over backwards to prove their investigation was sound.”

— Jane Harper

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

— Shannon Miller

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

— Sam Ewing

This is what I'm supposed to do. This is what I'm meant to do, is elite gymnastics.

— MyKayla Skinner

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

— Shawn Johnson

“You’ve worked hard at school and at gymnastics. That’s no easy feat!”

— Mary Casanova

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Laurie Hernandez

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.

— Simone Biles

I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics.

— Dina Kochetkova

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

— Bela Karolyi

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

— Dominique Moceanu

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

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I was a gymnast and my favorite event was floor because I got to smile.

— Jaz Sinclair

I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.

— Mitsuo Tsukahara