Top 352 Gymnastics Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I was always interested in skateboarding, BMX bike riding, flipping, gymnastics. Anything with tumbling, turning, twisting, and extreme sports.
We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.
My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.
Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life
I'm able to support my wife and family off of gymnastics. But at the same time I do take it very seriously - it is a job for me.
How I've always felt is that the fun in gymnastics got taken away from me too soon.
I love my height because when I'm doing gymnastics, it really benefits the sport - and also, I think being short is kind of cute.
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
The joy had been ripped away from me, but deep down, I loved the competition floor. And I thought, 'Gymnastics is literally the only thing I have.'
While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.
I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically.
It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
Apart from having heart surgery as a baby, I had a pretty normal upbringing. I attended mainstream school and did gymnastics and dancing.
I did gymnastics, I went to school, then I did homework. I missed out on a childhood.
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.
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
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.
Because I did gymnastics for such a long time, it's allowed me to stay really physical, and with the krav maga and all that, I can actually do a lot of my own stunts.
I am who I am today because of a lot of the things I've learned in gymnastics.
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.
That's really what gymnastics should be. It should always be a beautiful and inspiring thing to so many people.
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.
The best part is when parents come up to me with their kids, and they say, 'My daughter started gymnastics because of you.'
It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.
I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
I couldn't even think about elite gymnastics for a while. It was definitely good for me to try something different.
Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.
I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.
I would like beautiful gymnastics to be recognized as the best. I want the judges to appreciate things that are not necessarily winning points.
It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.
I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.
Music and television are turning into the equivalent of gymnastics and tennis: sports built entirely around the identification and training of prodigies.
Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job.
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.
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.
What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance.
When I was a kid, I did many sports. Judo, like my dad, but also volleyball, handball, and gymnastics. We never played much football.
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.
Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.
I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
As I grew up, I started practising gymnastics. I love dancing as well. So that keeps me fit.
Growing up, my friends played soccer or did gymnastics after school; I went on auditions with my mom.
I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.
It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.
I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for an era gone by.
Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.
I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.
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.
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.
Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.
When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.
Thanks for the reminder that i have to hit the gym today. I have'nt worked out in days. Unless one counted mattress gymnastics!!!
In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German gymnastics team.
