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" It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I like risky stuff. "

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

" People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances. "

" I always say I don't want to change anything in my life. "

" I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way. "

" 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. "

" My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians. "

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

" I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6. "

" I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity. "

" Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me. "

" 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. "