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" I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from. "

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" That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s. "

" Uchimura is the greatest of all time. "

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" I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside. "

" People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard. "

" What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it. "

" I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way. "

" It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top. "

" The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more. "

" See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?' "

" I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines. "

" I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people. "

" I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best. "

" If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind. "

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" I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. "

" Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world. "

" We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests. "

" It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture. "

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" I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon. "

" I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.' "

" Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out. "

" Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. "

" In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!' "

" What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me. "

" I am very highly appreciated in my country, and everybody seems to love me. "

" I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I'm out of there. "

" When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention. "

" I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it. "

" I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house. "

" I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. "