If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."
I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.
It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.
And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts think if their arm is bent a little it doesn't matter, but Nemov understands it matters.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.
How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.
I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.
My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.
Never give up and always keep fighting, because though times may be tough, the sacrifices do pay off, so just keep pushing towards your dream and just love it at the same time and enjoy it.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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