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" I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989. "

" 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. "

" In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too. "

" When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective. "

" 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?' "

" After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached. "

" At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life. "

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

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

" I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true. "

" I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976. "

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

" People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually. "

" I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.' "

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

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

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

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

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

" Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid. "

" Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect. "

" 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. "

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