54 Quotes by Olga Korbut

But, I couldn’t live without creation gymnastics.

I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can’t eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you’re supposed to have, you can’t.

I’d been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn’t compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn’t, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I’d been ready to go, you know.

I think if I wasn’t in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don’t like to see a gymnastics like that. I don’t know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don’t like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn’t live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don’t want to see gymnastics without Olga.

It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.