Bela Karolyi Quotes

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• I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest…
• My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
• Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
• You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!
• This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been…
• The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.
• I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.
• I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always…
• In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress…
• A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental…
• Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally.…
• I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
• Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.
• What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.
• The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.
• I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
• What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
• I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
• The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

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