Floor Exercise Quotes

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

Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.

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.

They're like, 'Oh, you did a...' and I'm like, 'I did a what?' No, I flipped twice. I twisted twice. They go, 'It's called a...' and I'm like, 'Why do I need to know that? I just need to go and do that.'

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

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

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

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

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

People have always asked me why my favorite event was floor, and my answer was always, 'Because I love to dance!'

Gymnastics is so complex.

I've always had a fascination with gymnastics, since I was a kid. It was the one thing at the Olympics that I would be like, 'Mom can I stay up late to watch gymnastics?'

I've always had an undeniable love for gymnastics.

I can do all my jumps in practice, three in a row, five out of five, four out of five.

I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

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 my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.

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.

Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.

I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'

My mom was a high school gymnast.

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

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.