"Basically the moral was you can never quit on a bad day and I think it’s super important because especially as kids - or even me now as an adult - sometimes you go through things in life and it's not going your way and you want to give up, but you can't quit on a bad day. "I would always be like, 'I don’t know what you’re talking about, I never said I wanted to quit.'" Liukin continued. Then she’d say, 'OK, now you can quit, we’ll enroll you back in the public school and find another activity you want to do.'" Liukin says one of the greatest pieces of advice her mom gave her as a teen was, "You can't quit on a bad day." Quinn Rooney / Getty Images "She would make me go back to the gym the next day and the next day until I had at least one good day. You can quit, but not today.'" said Liukin. "She would always say, 'That’s totally fine.
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Starting in 2022, the NL Cup Series will feature 20 invitationals, an increase of two from the 18 that participated in previous years. Still, Liukin recalls there were days - when dealing with an injury or finding the sport difficult - she would tell her mom she wanted to quit. INDIANAPOLIS, USA Gymnastics has announced the invitational meets that will participate in the 20 Nastia Liukin Cup Series. "I think pretty early on they realized truly how much love and passion I had for gymnastics and when they saw that, they weren’t going to take that away from me." "They really wanted me to find my own happiness and identity," Liukin told TODAY Parents, recalling that her mom encouraged her to try piano lessons, but Liukin cried on the way to lessons because she wanted to be in the gym. Olympic gold medalist Nastia Liukin will be one of the athletes coaching NBC Sports' digital summer camp for kids, starting July 6.
when she was two years old they ran a Texas gymnastics studio and encouraged their young daughter to find activities she was passionate about, gymnastics or not.
Liukin's parents moved from Russia to the U.S. The athlete, television personality and NBC Sports analyst, now 30, credits her parents, world champion gymnasts Valeri Liukin and Anna Kotchneva, for much of her success. Nastia Liukin was 18 when she won five medals in the 2008 Olympic Games, including a gold medal for the women's all-around gymnastics competition.
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