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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#been #before #big #championship #compete

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#change #games #gymnastics #i #know

Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#anyway #first #forgot #god #good

Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#also #around #europe #former #future

This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#because #each #easier #family #feel

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. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#anything #because #coach #disappointed #friend

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#anything #bloody #compulsive #else #good

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. ↗

— Viktor Korchnoi

#element #flaw #human #human element #lost

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. ↗

— Michael Korda

#fail #failure #freedom #from time to time #going

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there. ↗

— Michael Korda

#believe in yourself #create #getting #i #man