Shannon Miller Quotes

I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.

What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.

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

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

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

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.

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!

I've said before, 'gymnastics is abusive,' but now I know it's not the sport that's abusive - it's the culture that was created and accepted and normalized.

I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven.

I started gymnastics when I was six years old. I was at day care, and they took us on a field trip to a gym club, Bannon's Gymnastix in Houston, and that's how I got started.

I think just being able to experience college gymnastics the way I have has allowed me to really express myself and have so much fun in the sport.

I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.

the skilled immigrants will be long gone. They’ll be back home building the next Googles and Intels in other countries, and we will wake up 5 years from now and wonder how we let this happen.

It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

We should be growing and make ourselves, as a state and a nation, more competitive. India, China and these other countries are not waiting for us.

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.

Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.

Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.

When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford to ignore this disturbing trend any longer. While Democratic presidential candidates want to just blame U.S. corporations, the reality is that their strategy won't help protect American workers or save their jobs.

Technological change always accelerates. It never stagnates over time. Which means we are going to face the fact that, if nothing in the States changes, we will find ourselves dependent on other countries for almost everything that can and will be manufactured in a quickly approaching future.

As I grew up, I started practising gymnastics. I love dancing as well. So that keeps me fit.