Quotes on Gymnastics

Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music.

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

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

Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on me.

It hurts my head, but it's fine because it's something I do every day. You can't avoid the gymnastics questions.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.

Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.