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" 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. "

Nadia Comaneci

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

" I was a perfectionist in gymnastics. "

Nadia Comaneci

Gymnastics

Perfectionist

" 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. "

" You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people. "

" 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. "

" When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course. "

Nadia Comaneci

I Am Happy

Famous

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics! "

" It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "