Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
BELA KAROLYISuccess depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
BELA KAROLYIWhen 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.
BELA KAROLYIThe Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.
BELA KAROLYII consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
BELA KAROLYII 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.
BELA KAROLYIMy attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
BELA KAROLYIThe 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.
BELA KAROLYIA good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental.
BELA KAROLYIMental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
BELA KAROLYII 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.
BELA KAROLYII am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
BELA KAROLYIThis team just wasn’t good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.
BELA KAROLYINo competition, no progress.
BELA KAROLYII know gymnastics. It’s always been a subjective appreciation.
BELA KAROLYIYou have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!
BELA KAROLYIIn 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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