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No competition, no progress.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Competition
Progress
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My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Leadership
Attitude
Enough
Satisfied
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The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Community
Gymnastics
Olympics
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I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Appreciation
Gymnastics
Knows
Subjective
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The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Gymnastics
Laughed
World
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Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Animal
Survive
To Survive
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I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Criticism
Hunted
Tired
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You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Athlete
Gymnastics
People
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I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
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Borders
Familiar
Hungary
Romania
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Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.
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Genetics
High Quality
Performance
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I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Living My Life
Lucky
Ups & Downs
Life Myself My Life
Downs
Ups
Ups And Downs
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The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Giving
Play
Wings
Tremendous
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What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Cruelest
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My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Matters
In The End
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What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Prove
Work Your Better
Better Way
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I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Medal
Olympics
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Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Goal
Gymnastics
Sacrifice
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This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.
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Dream
Sports
Team
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I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Athlete
Growth
Traditional
Watches
Young Athletes
Athletes
Mental
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When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.
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Book
Magazines
Tv Shows
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What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
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Coordination
Spectacular
Event
Explosive
Vault
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The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.
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Feet
Foolish
Gymnast
Height
Above
However
Ideal
Pinpoint
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In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.
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Body
Endure
Gymnastics
Stress
Smaller
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A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Building Up
Practice
Repetition
Vaults
Contest
Mental
Percentage
Vault
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I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.
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Success
Sports
Lying
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Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.
Bela Karolyi / Coach
Arena
Challenges
Powerful
Pushing
Romania
Struggle
Life Great Always
Life Great My Life
Beating
Coach
Compete
Internationally
Struggling
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