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. Nadia Comaneci Read Quote
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. Nadia Comaneci Read Quote
I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I’m out of there. Nadia Comaneci Read Quote
I’m not a dreamer for, you know, ‘I want to go to the moon someday.’ I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it. Nadia Comaneci Read Quote
People assume a lot of things about gymnasts – that the girls work too hard, it’s way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard. Nadia Comaneci Read Quote
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. Nadia Comaneci Read Quote
I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don’t get a medal for that. Nadia Comaneci Read Quote
