Gymnastics Training Quotes

I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

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.

If you look at some of the strongest athletes in the world, they're gymnasts. And they're the most flexible. You can be very strong, very flexible, and still be able to move.

When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

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

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

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

As you get older, it's harder to maintain your weight and to fly through the air for those routines. It's also the lifestyle; you train seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week.

My parents met during their time at Cal Berkeley while they were both on the gymnastics team. Due to their intense gymnastics background, I started doing 'Mommy and Me' classes when I was 2 years old.

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

My coach would push us off the balance beam and teach us how to fall. That helps with your body awareness, your air awareness, but even the training I had in cheerleading, gymnastics, bodybuilding, nothing prepares you for what you go through in the ring.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

Gymnastics gives you the abs. It's not like I sit there doing like a thousand crunches before every practice or something like that.

At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.

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

I did ballet from the age of five, but what I loved was my gymnastics. I kept the ballet going because of the gymnastics, then found I was going to be too tall.

I've said before, 'gymnastics is abusive,' but now I know it's not the sport that's abusive - it's the culture that was created and accepted and normalized.

Because I did gymnastics for such a long time, it's allowed me to stay really physical, and with the krav maga and all that, I can actually do a lot of my own stunts.

I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.