Gymnastics Essay Example

 If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success. (Nastia Liukin)
 To Become a CHAMPION: Take your worst event and make it your best... AND THEN, take your worst event and make it your best... AND THEN, take your worst event and make it your best... (Gerald S. George, Ph.D.)
 When you walk in the gym you leave everything behind. Its like a total diferent world, its your second family. We gymnast spend more time in the gym than with our parents. We do gymnastics not to please our family but to please ourselfs. (Angelina Soto - 12 years old gymnast)
 Hope is to wish you could do something. Faith is to believe you can do something. Courage is to get up there and do it because you know you can, you have no doubt about it. (Angelina Soto - 12 years old gymnast)
 I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done. (Mike Ditka)
 The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. (Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed)
 A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught! (Thomas A. Kempis)
 You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
 Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. (Paul Goodman)
 Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. (Samuel Johnson)
 Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together. (Tony Dungy)
 "I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will