Gymnast Quotes - Page 3

• I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio.

  Nina Dobrev

  Yoga, Gymnastics, Thinking

  "Nina Dobrev admits to having a burberry addiction" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Part of being a good gymnast is being very disciplined - you have to know how to train right, eat right, sleep right.

  Jonathan Horton

  Sleep, Know How, Knows

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.

  Nita Leland

  Real, Exercise, Artist

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.14, North Light Books

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• Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a really epic brawl - a week shoot, lots of rehearsal - and he was just delightful. He's a dancer and a gymnast so he knows how to plant the moves. He was always saying, "Are you okay?" When you've got that level of mutual consideration you form a family very quickly.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Moving, Epic, Dancer

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.

  Miranda Kerr

  Basketball, Football, Children

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• I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was a very competitive (and stressed out!) gymnast before getting into entertainment, but it was never the actual gymnastics that was my true love. I loved the performing aspect of it all.

  Rachele Brooke Smith

  Gymnastics, Phoenix, Stressed

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.

  Nathan East

  Daughter, Athlete, Gymnastics

  "Daft Punk Bassist Nathan East: Music is His Mission". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I was always known as that stocky, muscular, powerful, short, athlete. People always wondered if I was on steroids, and it was because I wasn't that long and lean, flexible, artistic gymnast. It didn't affect me too much but it got to the point where I tried to be that long and lean gymnast, and it just wasn't possible.

  Shawn Johnson

  Powerful, Athlete, Long

  "Shawn Johnson gets more nervous watching Olympic Trials than she did competing". Interview with Maggie Hendricks, ftw.usatoday.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I actually sing horribly, but I used to dance pretty good. I was a gymnast, and you can usually use those gymnastic tricks with dance. Plus, they're so much fun to do. That wasn't really a big part of my career. It was just a phase.

  Robert Englund

  Fun, Careers, Use

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when I do stunts.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Years, Dancer, Handy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography.

  David Carradine

  Dancer, Kung Fu, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You do see some people that can contort themselves all the way around, but they may have been practicing for years, they may be gymnasts or they may just be flexible.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Years, People, May

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.

  Mia Hamm

  Dancer, Hips, Ifs

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• As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Challenges, Taught, Cost

  Dominique Moceanu (2012). “Off Balance: A Memoir”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Country, Gymnastics

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• A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Mind, Study

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• Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Growing Up, Fun, Team

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• Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

  Jaime Pressly

  Girlfriend, Gymnastics, Bronze Medal

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Character, Ribs, Stories

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• Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Basketball, Player

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• I get a lot of flak for it... people saying [my body] is not normal for a girl... But I'm okay with it. I think it's because I was a gymnast for eight years, from ages four to 12. My body was made before my bones were fully grown. Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.

  Pink

  Girl, Thinking, Years

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• Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.

  Joe Biden

  Athlete, Blow, College

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

  Nadia Comaneci

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• You get depressed because you're like, 'Everybody's working and I'm here sitting.' I feel for all gymnasts who get hurt. Injuries are just awful, but at least I had 'Bones' to work on when I wasn't training. It got my mind off the fact that I couldn't do anything.

  McKayla Maroney

  Hurt, Training, Mind

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