#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

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#daughter #exceptionally #gifted #gymnastics #i

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

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#everything #gymnastics #lessons #life #life lessons

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#comeback #gymnastics #impossible #itself

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#expected #give #great #gymnastics #i

Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#day #elite #every #focused #going

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#ask #came #funny #gymnast #happened

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#approach #based #beijing #could #difficulty