Nastia Liukin Quotes

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.

She was the one getting me to practise football. My father has helped in other ways but my mum was the one grabbing the ball and telling me: 'Come on! Let's practise now. Let's go. Right, right, left, left.'

I want to coach my boys and coach those boys that are 15 to 18 years old.

Schools are really, really important. It gives you access to every kid in the country. It gives you a massive pool of people to see who might be talented at different sports. It allows kids to try sports. Kids can be inspired all they want, but if they can't go out and try a sport, then it's no good.

I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.

Instead of being like the other kids going to soccer or football practice, I was wrestling every day.

Like, I did baseball, football, or track - I never really worked on a sport every day for years like most kids that hoop.

My kids are little athletes.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

Everyone gets motivated or inspired by different things.

I didn't really get into the sport for fame. I didn't get into it to be this infamous guy that everybody worships. I got into this sport to make a difference.

I feel I represent my country: not only my country but all former U.S.S.R. countries because I have very big fan base here, and I have more than a billion Muslim fans. I feel I represent these guys all around the world. My fans. This gives me very good energy. When I go to the cage, I think about these people.

I started running because my neighbour, Patrick Sang, was an athlete and I wanted to be just like him. Patrick came from the same village as I do and my mother used to be his teacher. I was so inspired by his success.

I'm going to become like a gymnast. I watch online, on Instagram, these gymnast influencers, and that's where I want to get.

One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing, and being the youngest sibling, I wanted to do what he did, so I pushed my parents to let me join.

If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.

I think the sport needs the help to continue to motivate athletes.

If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.