Maroney Quotes & Sayings

I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you ever do get it totally together. Probably if you did manage to do it you'd spontaneously combust. I think that's a law of nature. If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else. — Michael Thomas Ford

I did a 'Hart of Dixie' episode, and I was so excited for that. — McKayla Maroney

Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that. — McKayla Maroney

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. — Christopher Hitchens

There is a Precious Mountain
Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare
A cold moon rises through the pines
Layer upon layer of bright clouds
How many towering peaks?
How many wandering miles?
The valley streams run clear
Happiness forever! — Hanshan

I really like crop tops. I like how you can dress them up or down, with jeans or a skirt and heels. I like to be showy and cute. I don't want to be in just a jacket and pants and boots. — McKayla Maroney

The land belongs to the people who work it, — Emiliano Zapata

You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything. — McKayla Maroney

There will be no enemy if you try to kill him with the power of your love. — Debasish Mridha

Always Love and Cherish the people your with, you are everyones voice. you are taken by everyone to help others Along the same road as you.
-Sheena Raquel Maroney — Sheena

Don't leave your relationships to chance. Pray for godly people to come into your life with whom you can connect. Don't force relationships to happen. Pray for them to happen. Then when they do, nurture them with prayer. — Stormie O'martian

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up. — McKayla Maroney

Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment. — McKayla Maroney

It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am worth something. The task is to persevere in my solitude, to stay in my cell until all my seductive visitors get tired of pounding on my door and leave me alone. The wisdom of the desert is that the confrontation with our own frightening nothingness forces us to surrender ourselves totally and unconditionally to the Lord Jesus Christ. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

He found me when I was at my lowest point. — Faith Sullivan

Literature is the record of our discontent. — Virginia Woolf

I just know that all my fans who are with me and going along for the ride, that's what means the most to me. — McKayla Maroney

I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing. — Katie Holmes

Vintage fountain pens have provenance that makes a traditionalist go weak at the knuckles. — Fennel Hudson

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do. — McKayla Maroney

Before competition, I always take an ice bath to make my body feel more refreshed. Then I always have coffee with a little cream and sugar. It's a superstitious thing. — McKayla Maroney

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class. — Thomas Piketty

You're in the gym eight hours a day; you're not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making acting appearances. — McKayla Maroney

There's a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don't let anybody tell you any different, because everyone's special and everyone's awesome. — McKayla Maroney

You get depressed because you're like, 'Everybody's working and I'm here sitting.' I feel for all gymnasts who get hurt. Injuries are just awful, but at least I had 'Bones' to work on when I wasn't training. It got my mind off the fact that I couldn't do anything. — McKayla Maroney

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard. — McKayla Maroney

If you're following your dreams, you're doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for. — McKayla Maroney

I was just used to being in shape, and getting out of it was really difficult for me. — McKayla Maroney

Self-deception is an exotic theory, because it makes the paradoxical claim that something called "the self" can be both deceiver and deceived. — Steven Pinker

The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused. — McKayla Maroney

In fact, pop-cultural references have become such potent metaphors in U.S. fiction not only because of how united Americans are in our exposure to mass images but also because of our guilty indulgent psychology with respect to that exposure. Put simply, the pop reference works so well in contemporary fiction because (1) we all recognize such a reference, and (2) we're all a little uneasy about how we all recognize such a reference. — David Foster Wallace

A million feelings. A thousand thoughts. A hundred memories. All for one person. — Lil' Wayne

For our team leotards, we get about ten to choose from to actually compete in at the Olympics. — McKayla Maroney

Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life. — McKayla Maroney

I didn't want people to think of me as someone who wasn't impressed with a silver medal, because obviously that's a huge accomplishment, and I was so happy. It was more about me just being not impressed with falling at the Olympics in my last event. — McKayla Maroney

You never really think about what happens after the Olympics - you're just like, 'I want to compete. I want to do well' and thinking about that. After it all happened, it was such a whirlwind. I've gotten to do so many amazing things. My favorite thing was getting into acting. — McKayla Maroney

I really like Rihanna. And I actually do like Justin Bieber. I like the Weeknd. I like Katy Perry. — McKayla Maroney

When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing. — McKayla Maroney