37 Quotes by Bela Karolyi

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

No competition, no progress.

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

She has a great perspective. She's young. She's only 14 years old. You can imagine for how many more years she can represent the United States, and how many great victories she can obtain in international competition. We're looking to see her in many years from now on.