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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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I always say, 'When the Olympics are happening, you shouldn't be in any other place in the planet - you should be here.'
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.
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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.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
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We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.
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You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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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.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
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I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.
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Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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