I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
From Nadia Comaneci
I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.
It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
I thought celebrity meant Hollywood, that's it. I began to see that does include Olympians. People have so much respect for Olympians.
My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.
If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.
I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.
Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.
At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!
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