When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.
Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.
I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
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.
I was a gymnast for years.
I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.
When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.
Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.
My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.
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