Nadia Comaneci Quotes

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Nadia Comaneci

Profession : Athlete

Birth : November 12, 1961

I like risky stuff.

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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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If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.

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The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.

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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.

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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.

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Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

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I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.

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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.

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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.

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See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'

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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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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.

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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

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Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

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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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