About Quote by McKayla Maroney

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Gymnastics is so complex.

— Shawn Johnson

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machine-like. They'll refute this, but I've…

— Cathy Rigby

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've…

— Cathy Rigby

Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.

— Vera Caslavska

In the end, there's more than just gymnastics.

— MyKayla Skinner

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

— Shawn Johnson

Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who…

— Dominique Moceanu

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female…

— Meghan O'Rourke

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

— Shawn Johnson

Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but…

— Shannon Miller

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

— Meghan O'Rourke