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Olga Korbut

I think if I wasn't in very h...

I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

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Olga Korbut

I am not interested in medals...

I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.

Olga Korbut 55 quotes
Olga Korbut

And I suggested to change ver...

And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

Olga Korbut 55 quotes
Olga Korbut

I think I spent all my life i...

I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.

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Olga Korbut

Don't be afraid if things see...

Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

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Olga Korbut

I've never wanted to be anyth...

I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

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Olga Korbut

Its better to have a rich sou...

Its better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

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Olga Korbut

Because up to sixteen years o...

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

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Olga Korbut

I think this is all my life. ...

I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

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Olga Korbut

Then I was lucky I met with m...

Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.

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Olga Korbut

Life is marvelous now because...

Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

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Olga Korbut

Anyway I will go same road be...

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

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Olga Korbut

I would say this is not negat...

I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.

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Olga Korbut

Up to nineteen seventy six wh...

Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

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Olga Korbut

But probably this is helps to...

But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

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Olga Korbut

Thank god, and now all I have...

Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

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Olga Korbut

And in nineteen seventy two I...

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

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Olga Korbut

Finally I almost dropped gymn...

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.

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Olga Korbut

I feel great. I feel younger....

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.

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Olga Korbut

But let me do I will show the...

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

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