134 Quotes by Nadia Comaneci

People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.

I am a relaxed person. I am very happy.

Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.

When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.

The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too.