I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
Yoga is just gymnastics for uncoordinated people.
Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet.
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.
I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.
What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.
In football, you're dealing with grown men. In gymnastics, you're dealing with prepubescent teenage girls. There's a huge difference. At that age, you're not confident enough to have a voice.
