Gymnastics quotes
235 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine."
"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."
"Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again."
"It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it."
"Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short."
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"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."
"What you can do, or think you can, begin it."
"When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself."
"Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best."
"Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level."
"Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that."
"I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body. When I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years."
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition."
"Heart is what separates the good from the great."
"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."
"There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden."
"It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward."
"I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it."
"The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature."
"In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way."
"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."
"We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen."
"I want to bring more gymnastics on television."
"In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through."
"There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams."
