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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.
I wanted to have a free life.
I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.
I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.
I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I'm out of there.
I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.
If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.
If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.
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'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.
I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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Nadia Comaneci
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12 November, 1961
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Romania
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