Top 55 Katelyn Ohashi Quotes

When picking my original music, Tina Turner was someone I wanted in my routine because of the strong impact she has had on my life. I admire her courage and resilience.

For dinner, I like to have a protein and veggies again. But because of my ulcerative colitis, really healthy foods are hard on my stomach. Sugars aren’t good, and I have to be careful with vegetables. So it can be tough to find food that feels good.

I think just being able to experience college gymnastics the way I have has allowed me to really express myself and have so much fun in the sport.

I want to keep upgrading my routines and focus on cleaning them up and being consistent.

There was a time where I was on top of the world, an Olympic hopeful.

Whenever I had to move away from my dad, it was so hard; like, I would cry myself to sleep.

I am who I am today because of a lot of the things I’ve learned in gymnastics.

How I’ve always felt is that the fun in gymnastics got taken away from me too soon.

I won the 2011 Visa Championships, the 2012 Pacific Rims, and then the 2013 American Cup (the first and only senior elite competition of my elite career).

You can still get results without abuse.

I think competing is one of my favorite things ever.

I was unbeatable – until I wasn’t.

I would have never guessed I have, like, senators reposting me.

I was compared to a bird that was too fat to lift itself off the ground.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn’t want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

There are so many things that we have to be grateful for. It gets so easy to get caught up with one thing that, you know, isn’t perfect or not going the way you thought it would, but we always need to be grateful for what we have.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

My teammates and my coaches have all allowed me to step into my individuality and not be defined by just being a gymnast.

Watching something on the TV or Internet is not nearly as incredible as it is when you see it in person.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

Gymnastics was my worth – it was my life – and I hated myself.

Before bed, I just brush my teeth and fall asleep. I don’t usually wear makeup, but if I do, I’ll wipe it off. Then it’s pajamas and falling into bed, no other routine; I’m pretty good at just falling asleep right away.

There’s days when my body’s better than other days. It still gives me problems. But it’s very manageable. Rehab is forever my friend.

I was encouraged to use my voice and explore my passions outside of the sport. And when I did that, I was finally able to realize my true self-worth. I was more than that of a gymnast.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I’ve been dealing with pressure for a long time.

The joy had been ripped away from me, but deep down, I loved the competition floor. And I thought, ‘Gymnastics is literally the only thing I have.’

I think what I show is joy when I do stuff, so I think always having a love for what you do every single day is something that I hold extremely close to my heart because I know what it’s like to not feel that.

The truth is, gymnastics is a beautiful sport that has allowed me to grow and learn invaluable life lessons: sacrifice, dedication, discipline. Eventually, it led me to my voice.

Floor is where I get to express myself. That’s, like my party time, like my play time.

I can’t control what the judges give me.

As much as you love a sport, I don’t think love and joy necessarily go hand in hand. I think you can still be in love with the sport but just not happy in it.

As athletes, you always know that mistakes happen, and not everyone is perfect, and you can’t be perfect.

My back is permanently messed up.

Too frequently, we hear about coaches and programs willing to win at any cost.

Both my parents had never been to New York, so when they got to go out with me for ‘Good Morning America,’ they were so happy.

This may sound shocking, but I never dreamed about going to the Olympics.

The Olympics were something that was put in my path. I knew I was capable, I worked so hard for it, so I guess it’s like, Why wouldn’t I want to go to the Olympics? But it was never something that I was really, really dead set on. It was just what my coaches and everyone else forced upon me.

At just 16 years old, I was told that my back would never be the same again. My well-being had been neglected for the opportunity to win a gold medal.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that’s something I always had a hard time with.

I was in the gym seven hours a day, six times a week, and Sunday was my day of rest. So there wasn’t a lot of time that I had to myself, and obviously, that kind of ruined the joy of the sport.

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.

Using my voice has empowered me to take complete ownership of my life. So, in return for speaking my truth, I listen.

I learned at a young age that my voice was not wanted or heard, so I went silent. I did what I was told and set goals based on what everyone else expected of me.

As an athlete, you learn to keep pushing through the pain until the pain eventually becomes unbearable. Even then, you are told to continue.

Stuff happened in every sport. Every sport can become abusive.

I think gymnastics can be a really brutal sport. I don’t think it’s supposed to be a brutal sport.

As a gymnast, I’ve always compartmentalized my life, which is a blessing and a curse. But over time, I’ve learned that my sport doesn’t fully define me, and I think that’s where a lot of the joy in my routines comes from now: I’m not compartmentalizing as much, and I know who I am beyond my sport.

By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.

My mom was a high school gymnast.

As a little girl, I could not sit still until my parents told me it was time to go to the gym.

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.

I know it’s important to stay humble.

I’m healthy – for a gymnast.

Performing is my favorite thing.

I’ve been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.