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

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" 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. "

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

" I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better. "

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

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

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

" I like risky stuff. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics. "

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

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

" As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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