“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.” Muhammad Ali
“Tough times never last, but tough people do!” – Robert Schuller
“Repeatedly convincing yourself you aren’t going to die.” – Simone Biles, on how what you have to do to complete the hard workouts it takes to get in shape for competition
“If you dream and you allow yourself to dream, you can do anything.” Clara Hughes
“Never say never because limits, like fears, are often illusions.” Michael Jordan
“Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don’t let anything stand in your way.” – Brandy Johnson
“To reach your goals, you must grab on with both hands.”
“The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t’ is you. And you don’t have to listen.” – Nike
“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” Paul “Bear” Bryant
“Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.” Doug Williams
“Wake up every day knowing that today is a new day and only you can determine the day’s outcome. So dream big, accept the challenge, and never look back.” – Alicia Sacramone.
“If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.” Mark Spitz
“Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself.” – Mary Schmich
“There is always going to be a reason why you can’t do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.” – Shannon Miller
“The most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside. ” Brett Favre
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.” Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Jump off the beam, flip off the bars, follow your dreams and reach for the stars” (Wall Decal) – Nadia Comaneci
Gymnastics Training & Hard Wrdork Quotes
“Trust in your training, and make it happen.” Peter Vidmar
“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” – Dan Gable
“Part of being a good gymnast is being very disciplined – you have to know how to train right, eat right, sleep right.” Jonathan Horton
“mmm…there are no limits on your dreams if you’re willing to work for it.” – Shannon Miller
“Don’t practice until you get it right, practice until you can’t get it wrong.” McKayla Maroney
“Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made.” – Gabby Douglas
“I don’t think my natural talent is much different to the other gymnasts. It is a matter of how I train and how I think about my training. I also give a lot of thought to my routines.” Kohei Uchimura
“Practice as if it’s competition, but compete as if it’s practice.” Peter Vidmar
“Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.” – Unknown
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
“Hard work is always hard work for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.” Svetlana Boginskaya
“Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.” Suzanne Yoculan
“As much time as you put into it, that’s what your achievements are going to be the you come out of it.” – Mary Lou Retton
“Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.” Vladislav Rastorotsky
“To be a champion, you must train like a champion.” Unknown
“Hard word has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.” – Nadia Comaneci
Gymnastics Quotes On Mistakes
“I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” – Simone Biles
If you’ve done your best, making mistakes doesn’t matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.” – Shawn Johnson
“Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?” – Peter McWilliams
Gymnastics Quotes On Fear
“If you don’t leap, you’ll never know what it’s like to fly.” – Guy Finley
“It’s important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day — as that is what separates the good from the great.” – Kerri Strug
“If you are afraid of failure, you don’t deserve success.” – Nastia Liukin
“I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot.” – Nadia Comaneci
“You don’t drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.” – Edwin Louis Cole
Never Give Up Gymnastics Quotes
“When you are on the podium, nobody asks if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.” Oksana Chusovitina
“Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.” Raj Bhavsar
“In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that’s pretty tough to get through.” Shannon Miller
“When I go in to compete, whether it’s gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.” Shannon Miller
“We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give.” – Simone Biles
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Cute Gymnastics Quotes
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” Richard Wagner
“I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because trampling it beneath your feet is the only way to escape fear.” Nadia Comaneci
“It’s not about winning or losing a competition, it’s about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day, you gave it everything you had.” Aly Raisman
“I believe that you should gravitate to people doing productive and positive things with their lives.” Nadia Comaneci
“Gymnastics has made me strong. It broke me down to my lowest point and built me back up to where I am now.” Simone Biles
“Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart, and don’t let anything stand in your way.” Brandy Johnson
Funny Gymnastics Quotes
“Keep calm because I’m a Gymnast.”
“Seven days without gymnastics makes one weak.”
“Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.” – Doug Larson
“If Gymnastics were easy, they’d call it football.”
“If at first you don’t succeed… try doing what your coach told you to do the first time.”
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Paul Valery
The floor tells gymnasts, “If you fall, I’ll be there for you,” the beam says, “If you fall, I’ll drop you and then hit you on the way down.”
