#gymnast

Chess is intellectual gymnastics. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#gymnastics #intellectual

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#everything #gymnastics #movements #precision #timing

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

I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#gymnastics #sports #money

It's because you absolutely love the sport. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#sports #sports-inspirational #sportsmanship #inspirational

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain. ↗

— Alicia Sacramone

#always #any #being #being a teenager #body

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits. ↗

— Kristin Kreuk

#did #growing #growing up #gymnastics #i

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#also #because #consumed #date #exactly

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

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#also #being #casting #directors #fact