There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.
People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
Yawns are hard to refute.
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.