Shannon Miller Quotes (60 Quotes)


    Sweden is on a roll. They're well coached and they really believe now is the time. And Team USA, while extremely talented, only centralized after Christmas. Canada has been centralized since June.

    I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

    People put the fear of God into you when you go to law school and how horrible it's going to be. It really hasn't been. It's been a great experience.

    I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things.

    I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.


    I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.

    At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country.

    I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything.

    In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

    One of the main goals of D.I. is teamwork. We really talk about this often during our practices. I always tell them to have fun and show everyone else how you all can shine in your very own way too.

    For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

    We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

    It was kind of a surprise that he did it when he did it, ... I think that we're both definitely ready to make that commitment.

    The first line is all about speed and finesse. They'll use speed, and hands and toughness. Between those three, it's a good combination.

    When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

    There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

    Ten years ago people were asking me to do just about anything and everything. It's one thing to get offered a job but it's another to be able to actually do the job. I guess that's kind of what my thinking is. It'd be great to get offered something, but I want to be sure that I'm able to do it and do it well.

    It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

    In some ways, it feels like it was yesterday. And then other times, it feels like it was a completely different lifetime and I have to really think to know that I actually competed there and all of that really happened.

    I was probably pretty frustrating to work with, because if I ever did anything wrong, I would just start crying. And it wouldn't be because I was hurt or anything like that, or because I didn't want to be there, I love gymnastics, but it was because I was such a perfectionist that anything I did wrong, you know, it just tore me up, and Steve dealt with that really well.

    I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.


    (The referees) made a call that put us on penalty-kill and our whole team knew that we shouldn't be on penalty-kill. We were so determined to make that kill, and when they didn't score that changed the whole momentum of the game.

    For ourselves, we need to play great hockey and sweep this weekend.

    When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

    The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.

    They get to miss a day of school for the trip. They are very excited about that. It should be a fun weekend and we really wanted to reward the boys for all of the hard work they have done.

    She's got big-game experience. She's a little bit older and has maturity on and off the ice.

    She's always had kind of a natural offensive ability. She is instinctive with natural skills.

    Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

    This is the first year since 1992 USA Gymnastics has promoted a post-Olympic tour by themselves, and they've gone about it wrong. I don't agree with the athletes' being asked to sign something they don't believe in and the bad-mouthing of athletes for signing on one tour instead of the other. To have that coming down from the top of your governing body is just not right.

    Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.

    For me, one of the pitfalls was trying to be perfect to everyone at all times instead of just being me and understanding that everyone's human.

    Gymnastics has helped me so much, how to be dedicated to something, how to work hard to acheive your goals, also to be organized, and how to try and balance my life out. I think it's helped me in school too, because it's kept me organized and I'm always striving for a goal.

    At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.

    We do have depth. We need team chemistry and discipline and tonight it went in. I attribute that to chemistry.

    I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.

    I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.

    Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

    I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

    Everyone here has always treated me like thier daughter. It doesn't matter who it is, and it was even before I won Olympic medals, it was, you know, when I was growing up, they knew I had a goal, they knew I had a dream, and they were willing to help me in any way possible.

    I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.


    I think the biggest thing for me was that it showed me there are a lot of other ways that I can continue in this sport even past competition days. That's really what this last 10 years has been about for me - finding myself and what I want to do after the Olympics, and finding ways to stay involved with the sport that I love.

    Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.


    Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

    It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good.

    And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.

    There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.


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