Top 131 Gymnastics Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Gymnastics Quotes from famous people such as Laurie Hernandez, Bela Karolyi, Olga Korbut, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it's a good d

Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it’s a good different, and it’s something that I’ve always wanted to try.
Laurie Hernandez
The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.
Bela Karolyi
But, I couldn’t live without creation gymnastics.
Olga Korbut
I know gymnastics. It’s always been a subjective appreciation.
Bela Karolyi
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
My first experience with gymnastics was when I was in daycare. We took a field trip to a gym, and I was hooked.
Simone Biles
I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven.
Laurie Hernandez
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.
McKayla Maroney
I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
Dan Millman
A little before my 10th birthday, I was like, ‘Can I please have a puppet, Mom and Dad?’ They were like, ‘No. You are a singer, not a ventriloquist. You have three brothers, and you’re in gymnastics. There’s no way we have time for this.’
Darci Lynne Farmer
In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that’s pretty tough to get through.
Shannon Miller
We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces – but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.
Barbara Demick
I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
Shawn Johnson
I did gymnastics, I went to school, then I did homework. I missed out on a childhood.
Sergei Polunin
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
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.
Serinda Swan
The gymnastics community is toxic. You just do what they say no matter what. It’s really scary.
Paige Spiranac
Romania doesn’t have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
Nadia Comaneci
I had a stunt double for ‘The Bronze.’ She’s literally the most amazing human being I’ve ever seen. She’s NCAA women’s gymnastics champion. She was incredible. I would poke her thighs, and my nail would break because it was like poking a rock.
Haley Lu Richardson
I’ve done everything – weight-lifting, Pilates, crossfit, martial arts, gymnastics – but I think the most important workout, at least for me these days, is a mental one.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I have a center at 412 West Chicago Avenue. It’s called the Jesse White Community Center and Fieldhouse. It’s a state-of-the-art gymnastics facility, game room, weight room, computer lab.
Jesse White
I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn’t very good at it.
Lindsey Vonn
I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you’re supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
Olga Korbut
My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.
Laurie Hernandez
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.
Aly Raisman
I’m a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
Earl King
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.
Dominique Moceanu
We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it’s very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
Facundo Pieres
Being an alternate is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in gymnastics.
MyKayla Skinner
I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.
Ashley Scott
I love race car drivers, I love gymnastics, I love UFC, I love police officers, I love firefighters. I just try to give them the same enjoyment they give me.
Shaquille O’Neal
The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnasti

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.
Dominique Dawes
At school, either gymnastics or dance, it was the same. It gave me pleasure to move. And then, when I worked to achieve something new and out of the ordinary, it made me feel good. I felt I had surpassed myself.
Sylvie Guillem
What’s endlessly complicated in thinking about women’s gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
Meghan O’Rourke
In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies – think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German gymnastics team.
Jacob Weisberg
My dad is the biggest Lexie fan – ever since I was in gymnastics, he went to ever gymnastics meet, every cheer competition, every bodybuilding show.
Alexa Bliss
My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.
Kerri Strug
I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.
Nicole Gale Anderson
My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I’m not a braggy mother but she is gifted – with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.
Caroline Rhea
Gymnastics taught me everything – life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
Shawn Johnson
Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.
Nadia Comaneci
My daily routine is set: I wake up and go for gymnastics, then dance class, gym, and come back home. That’s my life. I am very boring.
Disha Patani
In the end, there’s more than just gymnastics.
MyKayla Skinner
I’m enjoying gymnastics. Having people there to cheer you on is an amazing feeling and such a cool opportunity.
MyKayla Skinner
I’m 24, which I know doesn’t sound very old. But in the world of gymnastics it is. The Tokyo Games are my last shot to compete as a gymnast for Team USA, and my last shot at winning a gold medal.
MyKayla Skinner
It’s like someone important is missing from a party because you can’t imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
Nadia Comaneci
Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.
Dominique Moceanu
Growing up, my friends played soccer or did gymnastics after school; I went on auditions with my mom.
Kellie Martin
I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.
Jasmine Tookes
I think gymnastics can be a really brutal sport. I don’t think it’s supposed to be a brutal sport.
Katelyn Ohashi
My mom’s whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
Rachele Brooke Smith
I love my gymnastics and a flexible body, so I indulge in a lot of yoga from that aspect.
Amyra Dastur
When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn’t join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened – I did more than I expected, of course.
Nadia Comaneci
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.
Alexa Bliss
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.
Cathy Rigby
I’d grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
V. E. Schwab
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.
Darcey Bussell
When I came back to Mumbai after boarding school, I was 16 and I picked up weight training and yoga. This is when I also started dance classes and Pilates and then I started doing different workouts every month. I am now proficient in kick boxing, gymnastics, classical dance as well as yoga.
Amyra Dastur
My parents have been incredibly supportive of me. They’ve always stood by me, whatever my decisions. When I was younger, I was like a butterfly flitting from one thing to the next – be it gymnastics, karate or piano lessons. They never forced me into anything.
Edith Bowman
I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were dictating my future.
Katelyn Ohashi
Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I’m having as much fun with it as possible.
Simone Biles
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.
Simone Biles
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was

Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn’t have anything which is, live with. I didn’t have a friend so I didn’t have a coach anymore.
Olga Korbut