Zoe Bell Quotes

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.

Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.

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

I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

A typical practice consists of practicing every event for about an hour. A lot of people assume I have private coaching, but I work out with 13 other girls at the gym!

I was a gymnast for years.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio.

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

Here at Basel is where I made my first professional steps. I came up and grew up through the FC Basel school.

When I was growing up Harlequins were interested in signing me because I was very fast and strong at an early age, but I wasn't interested in rugby at the time.

I was playing first-team football at Cardiff at 16.

For me the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn't choose my media life.

I played three years as a junior.

I have been involved in this sport since I was eight years old, so, hopefully, I can train and coach athletes down the line.

I was a goalkeeper at Crewe as a kid but piled on pounds when I stopped training every day.

I started playing from the age of 11-12. I loved the game immediately but started playing the game seriously only in 1993-94.

I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.

My parents met during their time at Cal Berkeley while they were both on the gymnastics team. Due to their intense gymnastics background, I started doing 'Mommy and Me' classes when I was 2 years old.