Nadia Comaneci Quotes

The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.

Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.

Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.

Almost everything wrong with our health care system comes from government interference with the free market. If the health care system is broken, then fix it. Don't try to invent a new one premised on all the bad ideas that are causing problems in the first place.

Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.

Choose your customers, choose your future.

Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.

My principles in respect of religious interest are two,--one is, that the Church shall not meddle with politics, and the government shall not meddle with religion.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

The world needs an enema.

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.

Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.

Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.