Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice. . . practice. . . practice.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short.
Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.