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.

Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

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

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.

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

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.

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