Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Uchimura is the greatest of all time. "

Related Quotes:

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

" I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country. "

" I like risky stuff. "

" When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me. "

" The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too. "

" 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. "

" I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I'm out of there. "

" 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. "

" In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too. "

" My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time. "

" Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up. "

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

Surround Yourself

" 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. "

" When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders. "

" I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore. "

" 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. "

" Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14. "

" Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests. "