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" I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.' "

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" I wanted to have a free life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania. "

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

" 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. "

" Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world. "

" 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. "

" Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic. "

" I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends. "

" Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do. "

" I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning. "

" 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?' "

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

" I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second. "

" Uchimura is the greatest of all time. "

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

" Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition. "

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

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

" Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989. "

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

" Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that. "

" You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience. "