Quotes from Gymnasts

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1. "Because I'm little, I think the audience likes me." Dominique Moceanu Kim Gwang-Suk Mina Kim Mo Huilan

2. "Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion." Svetlana Boginskaya Dominique Dawes Oksana Chusovitina Henrietta Onodi

3. "Giving interviews is the most difficult thing about being a gymnast." Nadia Comaneci Nadia Hatagan Emilia Eberle Gina Gogean

4. "First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport." Liu Xuan Nadia Comaneci Rozalia Galieva Esther Moya

5. "I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!" Anna Mirgorodskaya Svetlana Boginskaya Svetlana Khorkina Isabelle Severino

6. "I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics." Mo Huilan Dina Kochetkova Lilia Podkopayeva Yelena Grosheva

7. "What I like best is the competition itself." Oksana Chusovitina Irina Yevdokimova Yelena Piskun Svetlana Zelepukina

8. "The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to." Nadia Comaneci Yelena Produnova Gina Gogean Lyudmila Turischeva

9. "In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago." Olga Mostepanova Rozalia Galieva Lavinia Milosovici Simona Amanar

10. "Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well." Adrienn Varga Silvia Mitova Henrietta Onodi Adrienne Nyeste