Thibaut Courtois Quotes

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

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.

Right now I'm working on the back handspring.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

Gymnastics is so complex.

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

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 wish I could be good at gymnastics.

I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.

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

To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.

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.

I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the floor. I was terrible at everything else, especially beam. Unfortunately, you can't be a gymnast unless you're good at all of the apparatuses, so I became a competitive cheerleader. I was just the main tumbler for my squad.

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

I can cartwheel!

I have always been a huge fan of 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.

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

I could do a standing back flip at 13.

A lot of people know me for my speed and my flexibility. I like to jump, but I'm not really the best jumper. I'm more of a spinner.