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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
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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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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
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Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
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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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One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
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It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.
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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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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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