A Quote by Nastia Liukin

When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

Nastia Liukin

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Competing Could Find Gymnastics Inspiration Much Outside Rarely Sport Still Younger

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Nastia Liukin
American - Athlete
Born: October 30, 1989

By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty.

Svetlana Boginskaya

I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.

Ludmilla Tourischeva

When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.

Jonathan Horton

Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

Henrietta Onodi

Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.

Vera Caslavska

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

Edward G. Robinson

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

Lance Armstrong

I'm a single woman of 56 and I see a lot of men my age with much younger women or women my age with much younger men. I've done both, and I still hope that when I do find someone I want to spend time with, they think I'm the hottest thing going.

Kim Cattrall

Mentally there's no question about whether I still like the sport and love doing it. I think it's pretty clear to everyone here that I love the sport. I love doing gymnastics and I love performing. So that's not really a question.

Samantha Peszek

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

Cathy Rigby

It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

Andy Clark

Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

Dominika Cibulkova

I think just being able to experience college gymnastics the way I have has allowed me to really express myself and have so much fun in the sport.

Katelyn Ohashi

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.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.