Olga Korbut Quotes

• Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

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  Recovery, New Beginnings, Gymnastics

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• Its better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

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  Sports, Soul, Riches

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• Esta capacidad de conquistarse a uno mismo es sin duda la más preciada de todas las cosas que otorga el deporte.

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  Motivación, Deporte, Atleta

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• The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

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  Important, Retreat, Masters

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• I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.

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  Sports, Fighting, Titles

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• And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

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  Deportes, Media, Juegos

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• Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

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  Gymnastics, Tape, Life Is

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• Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

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  Gymnastics, Born, Duty

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• I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.

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  Life, Gymnastics, Past

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• And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

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  Sports, Stars, Games

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• Yo diría que esto no es negativo esto es h, una parte dura en la gimnasia. No puedes comer, lo que quieras comer. Y qué tipo de comida que se supone que debe tener, no se puede.

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  Sports, Gymnastics, Negative

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• I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

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  Courage, Giving Up, Thinking

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• I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

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  Realist, Aspects Of Life, Can Do

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• If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

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  Motivational, Sports, Gymnastics

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• Pero dejadme hacer, voy a mostrar al mundo cómo es la gimnasia. Bueno, puede que esta sea la gimnasia del futuro.

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  Sports, Gymnastics, Looks

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• Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

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  Gymnastics, Nineteen, Six

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• 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.

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  Sports, Gymnastics, People

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• I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.

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  Years, Twenties, Three

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• Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.

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  Travel, Husband, Europe

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• 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.

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  Deportes, Equipo, Juegos

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• 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.

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  Deporte, Equipo, Pensamiento

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• Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

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  Sports, Kids, Gymnastics

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• 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.

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  Sports, Gymnastics, World

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• I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

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  Wall, Fun, Gymnastics

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• And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

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  Sports, Simple, Years

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