Romanian - Athlete | November 12, 1961 -
Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
Nadia Comaneci
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I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.
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I am a relaxed person. I am very happy.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
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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.
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