Quotes by Dominique Moceanu - Page 1

I never, ever objected to hard work.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Hard Work
Work Never Hard
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Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Gymnastics
Chose
Ways
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I prayed a lot. That's all I had in the gym; that was the thing I could turn to.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Gym
Prayed
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My mom always knew I would be able to take care of myself, but my dad was afraid.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Take Care
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I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Sister
Found
Years
Existed
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I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Sister
Adoption
Born
Given
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Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Mind
People
Want
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I certainly believe that having my husband be in my life has been a tremendous blessing.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Blessing
Life Believe My Life
Tremendous
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I'd challenge myself to see how long I could go without a fall - on beam, I once went three weeks.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Beam
Weeks
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I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Earning
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I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Coaches
Joy
Slipping
Afraid
Mistakes
Sport
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Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Christian
Devoted
Mother
Orthodox
Taught
Pray
Great Me Woman
Great Deal
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I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Discipline
Sacrifice
Blossom
Coach
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I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Determination
Gymnastics
Hungry
Best World Go
Compete
Eager
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I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Chaos
Holiday
Barely
Recall
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I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Adoption
Birth
Legs
Sibling
Existed
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I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Positive
Adversity
Difficult
Overcoming
Positive Change
Use
Overcome
Positive Life Change
Experiences
Learned
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I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Orthodox
Profoundly
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I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Injured
Trials
Bend
Jump
Leg
Olympic
Properly
Straighten
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I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Ethical
Intimidation
Method
Self Esteem
Undermining
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Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They're not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Anatomy
Coaches
Nutrition
Physiology
Elite
Perspectives
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My husband and I believe that if you treat a child well and nurture his talent and physical ability, in a healthy environment, the child will succeed no matter what.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Healthy Environment
Nurture
Physical Ability
Succeed
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As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Be Prepared
Challenges
Cost
Filled
Gymnast
Prepared
Taught
Life Future Always
Competitive
Day One
Define
Ultimately
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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.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Belittle
Figures
Gymnastics
Scream
Male
Young Girls
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When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Battle
Court
Gold
Seventeen
Traveled
Age World Your
Olympic
Olympic Gold
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Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Abuse
Joy
Olympics
Years
Verbal
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In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Gold
Loud
Nine
Parent
Years
Time Parents First Time
Interview
Olympic
Olympic Gold
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My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Running
Gymnastics
Years
Drawn
Enrolled
Playground
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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 / Gymnast
Gymnastics
Teenage
Confident
Dealing
Grown
Grown Men
Huge Difference
Teenage Girls
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We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Athlete
Coaches
Healthy
Humiliate
Scar
Teaching
Life Better More
Athletes
Elite
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I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Gym
Good Believe I Believe
Coach
Compete
Emotionally
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For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Rely
Romania
Sunday
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In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Better Life
Escaping
Gymnastics
Romania
Life Sports Me
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The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Sports
Careers
Nightmare
Olympics
Stressful
Summer
Demanding
Slowly
Trained
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My father wasn't allowing me control and the financial freedom that I was asking for. I was 17, about to be 18 within a year, so I started asking more questions because I felt that I needed to start learning about those things.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Allowing
Financial Freedom
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Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Atlanta
Confirmation
Gold
Gymnastics
Medal
Olympic Games
Receiving
Standing
Vain
Crowning
Gold Medal
Jewel
Olympic
Podium
Sacrifices
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It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Opportunity
Believe
Gymnastics
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My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I received after making the national team, so I was ineligible for NCAA eligibility anyway.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Accepted
National Team
Ncaa
Anyway
Monthly
Received
Scholarships
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I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Blue
Gold
Gymnastics
Life Changing
Medal
Standing
Women World People
Teammates
Women World Country
Gold Medal
How Many People
Podium
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In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don't have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Heal
Hurt
Order
Sake
Life Your People
Deeply
Forgive
Forward
Happier
Life People End
Healthier
In The End
Move Forward
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I was very hungry to compete internationally when I was 10 years old, and I was good enough to compete, so that part never made me afraid or worried at all. When I was at my peak, around 12 and 13, I won my junior national and senior national titles back to back.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Hungry
Senior
Titles
Worried
Good Enough Me
Compete
Good Me Enough
Internationally
Junior
Peak
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My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Better Life
Give Me
Gymnast
Homeland
Immigrants
Life Opportunity Better
Life Opportunity Me
Every Opportunity
Struggled
Penny
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I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.
Dominique Moceanu / Gymnast
Gym
Petite
Bowl
Classes
Tiniest
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