Quotes by Nadia Comaneci - Page 3

I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Gold
Medal
Olympics
Hoping
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I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I'm out of there.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Cardio
Maximum
Stretching
Work Out
Weights
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If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Inspirational
Motivational
Moving
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I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Accomplished
Moon
Someday
Dreamed
To The Moon
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I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Oklahoma
Thunder
Success People Know
Map
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The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Athlete
Gymnast
Landing
Numbers
Scoreboard
Stuck
Good Thinking Enough
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If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Work Out
Little Girl
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Artistry
Gymnastics
Advanced
Combine
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I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Big Deal
Malls
Medal
Shopping
Life Today My Life
Missed
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My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Olympics
Romania
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Romania
Yellow
Elastic
Pink
Ponytail
Socks
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Accused
Beam
Personality Always Me
Balancing
Concentrate
Crowd
Footage
Rival
Smiling
Waving
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We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Conflict
Forgotten
Importance
Interference
Olympics
Organisation
Romania
Developed
Raising
Successfully
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I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.
Nadia Comaneci / Gymnast
Gym
Mess
Montreal
No Pressure
Pressure
Used
Airport
Bar
Came
Hoping
Routines
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