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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.