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You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

Bela Karolyi

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

Athlete Growth Watches
The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
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Giving Play Wings
Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
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Mental Practice Repetition
I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
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Downs Life Living Lucky Ups
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 Gymnastics Stress
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
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Attitude Enough Leadership
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.
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Lying Sports Success
The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.
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Gymnastics Laugh World
I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
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Borders Hungary Romania
I know gymnastics. It’s always been a subjective appreciation.
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Appreciation Gymnastic Knows
A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental.
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Building Practice Up Vault
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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Books Magazines Shows TV
No competition, no progress.
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Competition Power Progress
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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Battle Heart Victorious Work
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.
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Area Country Struggle Took
You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!
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