I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth.… — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that… — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this… — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters. — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism. — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be… — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has… — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the… — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it. — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs. — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives! — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach,… — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work. — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore. — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
