#gymnastics

Chess is intellectual gymnastics. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#gymnastics #intellectual

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#everything #gymnastics #movements #precision #timing

Gymnastics is so complex. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#gymnastics

With strange detachment, Naomi’s mind noticed nothing but the beauty of the jump. Air sliced along her body as it streamed straight as an arrow in its path of utmost precision. The world fell away behind her. For an immeasurable moment, Naomi wasn’t a terrestrial being at all. She was wildly liberated like a bird, soaring through the sky with the chaotic freedom of a wild animal. ↗

— Jennifer Perry

#mystery-suspense #suspense-action #beauty

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe. ↗

— John Rachel

#cerebral #computers #gymnastics #intelligence #orangutan

I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#gymnastics #sports #money

It's because you absolutely love the sport. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#sports #sports-inspirational #sportsmanship #inspirational

I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt. ↗

— Gabby Douglas

#belt #continue #fresh #get #gymnastics

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits. ↗