Gymnastics is a game that shows off a person's strength, grace, balance, and activeness. It is an art that requires you to be fit in order to perform better. If you want to be a gymnast, you necessarily need to train your body to be extremely flexible and quick, and have the capability to experiment and push your body to the limit. Famous Gymnastics Quotes and Sayings Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life. - Shawn Johnson I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits. - Kristin Kreuk I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6. - Nadia Comaneci You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people. - Nadia Comaneci Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but it's good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. - Andy Rooney Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that. - Shannon Miller Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty. - Olga Korbut In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way. - Shannon Miller Let us describe the education of men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better experience of the past which expresses the body than gymnastics. I believe, in gymnastic, for the body and music for the mind. - Plato I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. - Victoria Jackson And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics. - Shannon Miller Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics. - Suzanne Yoculan Chess is intellectual gymnastics. - Wilhelm Steinitz Pain is temporary; it may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, that lasts forever. Lance Armstrong Never give up on something you love or have had a love for. If you give up/ quit, there is no turning back and nothing will be the same. - Anonymous Gymnast Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me. - Olga Korbut We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen. - Shannon Miller Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga. - Olga Korbut Gymnasts defeat gravity. - Anonymous Signing off here, hoping that these wonderful quotes have lifted your spirits, with the arena awaiting your performance.