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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.