#gymnast

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#fear #gymnast #challenge

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#gymnastics #hard #i #old #retired

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#champion #gymnast #i #involved #olympic

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

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#gymnastics #i #live #without

Gymnastics is so complex. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#gymnastics

With strange detachment, Naomi’s mind noticed nothing but the beauty of the jump. Air sliced along her body as it streamed straight as an arrow in its path of utmost precision. The world fell away behind her. For an immeasurable moment, Naomi wasn’t a terrestrial being at all. She was wildly liberated like a bird, soaring through the sky with the chaotic freedom of a wild animal. ↗

— Jennifer Perry

#mystery-suspense #suspense-action #beauty

It's because you absolutely love the sport. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#sports #sports-inspirational #sportsmanship #inspirational

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#bureaucracy #cold #cold war #elephant #grown

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#inspirational #pain #inspirational