I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
I wanted to have a free life.
I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.
The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too.
I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.
At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.
Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.
Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
