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.
Bela KarolyiSuccess depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
Bela KarolyiI 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.
Bela KarolyiWhen 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.
Bela KarolyiA good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
Bela KarolyiI 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.
Bela KarolyiBack in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.
Bela Karolyi