Best Gymnastics Wisdom
247 Gymnastics quotes by 111 unique authors
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Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
— Shawn Johnson
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After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
— Shawn Johnson
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A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
— Shawn Johnson
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I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center…
— Shawn Johnson
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Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
— Shawn Johnson
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It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect…
— Shawn Johnson
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Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
— Shawn Johnson
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Gymnastics is so complex.
— Shawn Johnson
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I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
— Shawn Johnson
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My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.
— Shawn Johnson
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People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
— Shawn Johnson
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When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do…
— Shawn Johnson
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In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I…
— Shawn Johnson
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
— Benjamin Jowett
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
— Herbert Kaufman
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
— Nastia Liukin
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
— Vince Lombardi
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Genius is eternal patience.
— Michelangelo
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Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.
— Shannon Miller
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When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.
— Shannon Miller
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I want to bring more gymnastics on television.
— Shannon Miller
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Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.
— Aly Raisman
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Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which…
— Andy Rooney
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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