#gymnast

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#careers #especially #family #family business #gymnastics

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

#become #denial #gymnastics #much #numbing

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. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#combination #event #figure #figure skating #good

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#biggest #career #delivered #gymnastics #had

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#amazing #baseball #baseball players #basketball #board

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. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#anymore #been #being #compete #easier

And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#ages #because #future #gymnastics #i

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#competition #elements #emotion #everything #feel

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#gymnastics #i #like #looks #may

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#because #create #dropped #finally #gymnastics