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" I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away. "

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

" My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be. "

" At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect. "

" Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly. "

" I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives. "

" 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. "

" I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better. "

" I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot. "

" I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights. "

" I wanted to have a free life. "

" I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country. "

" My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time. "

" Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme. "

" Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job. "

" I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym. "

" Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves. "

" I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me. "

" Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle. "

" The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too. "

" I like America. I don't want to hurt America. "

" 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. "

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

" I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done. "

" Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. "

" If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close. "

" Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more. "

" 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 was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference. "

" To me, family is what is important. If you don't have it, nothing is going to matter. "

" If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to. "