Shannon Miller Quotes

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

Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

I was a gymnast as a little girl.

Gymnastics is so complex.

I was a gymnast for years.

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.

I've always had an undeniable love for gymnastics.

My first experience with gymnastics was when I was in daycare. We took a field trip to a gym, and I was hooked.

My mom was a high school gymnast.

Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.

I do tumbling and flips; there's a gym I go to for that.

Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

I have always been a huge fan of gymnastics.

Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too.

I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

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

Fitness for us on match day is paramount.