American Quote by Bela Karolyi Download Open image “The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.” — Bela Karolyi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Before Came Gymnastics I came Laughed Rest World
How I've always felt is that the fun in gymnastics got taken away from me too soon. — Katelyn Ohashi Copy Share Image
When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher score than… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The joy had been ripped away from me, but deep down, I loved the competition floor. And I thought, 'Gymnastics is literally the only… — Katelyn Ohashi Copy Share Image
Having the opportunity to go to the U.S. Olympics was great because I was the first Latina in over 30 years to compete in… — Laurie Hernandez Copy Share Image
And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more… — Shannon Miller Copy Share Image
In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
I was a gymnast my whole life. I mean, I'd go to Starbucks and people would be like, 'Are you going to the next… — McKayla Maroney 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
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
