134 Quotes by Nadia Comaneci

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    I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

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    It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

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    I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.

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    I thought celebrity meant Hollywood, that's it. I began to see that does include Olympians. People have so much respect for Olympians.

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    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.

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    It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

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    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.

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