Future Quote by Olga Korbut

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

By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we…

— Svetlana Boginskaya

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

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel…

— Olga Korbut

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

Gymnastics is so complex.

— Shawn Johnson

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

— Oksana Chusovitina

Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become…

— Amanda Borden

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

For female wrestlers, it's always such a thin line, because every sport has its age limits, but when it comes to women, we seem…

— Brandi Rhodes

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

— MyKayla Skinner

I definitely want to put my kids in gymnastics at an early age, whether that's what they want to or not. Gymnastics just builds…

— Sam Mikulak