A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the co…

- Bela Karolyi

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very ex…

- Bela Karolyi

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

- Bela Karolyi

I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment…

- Bela Karolyi

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

- Bela Karolyi

Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful co…

- Bela Karolyi

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

- Bela Karolyi

No competition, no progress.

- Bela Karolyi

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

- Bela Karolyi