“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.”

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental.

Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

This 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.

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.

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally.

I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

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.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

I know gymnastics. It’s always been a subjective appreciation.

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.

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

No competition, no progress.

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

Where I grew up, acting wasn’t really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they’re eating dinner. You’re part of the family.

There’s not many good comedies to watch – you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.

If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.