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" I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity. "
Nadia Comaneci
Freedom
Me
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" My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time. "
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" I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity. "
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" I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done. "
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" We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it. "
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" It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania. "
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" I was a perfectionist in gymnastics. "
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" I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country. "
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" 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. "
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" I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.' "
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" I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights. "
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" I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true. "
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" I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. "
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" Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention. "
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" 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.' "
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" We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs. "
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" I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that. "
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