Paige Spiranac Quotes

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.

I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I'm having as much fun with it as possible.

I dabbled in football myself until the age of 14, but I didn't have as much love for the sport as I did track and field. I would never have been good enough to take it to the highest level.

I always wanted to be active, and I always wanted to perform. That's why I loved gymnastics.

Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

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

Right now I'm working on the back handspring.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.

I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.

Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.

My goal is to do cartwheels for the rest of my life.

Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.