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Love Quote by Olga Korbut

"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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Korbut’s sentence tumbles forward like someone still out of breath after a routine: “to win, to win, to gold.” The grammar is imperfect, but the intent is precise. She’s building a hierarchy of victory in real time, and she’s doing it in public, where athletes are normally trained to sound polished, strategic, sponsor-friendly. Instead, she talks like a person who knows medals are both everything and not enough.

The subtext is a quiet pushback against a sports machine that measures worth in metal and math. “More gold medals” is there, dutifully, because in Korbut’s world - Soviet-era gymnastics, global broadcasts, national expectation - you’re supposed to say you want the hardware. But she immediately pivots to the “most my important medal”: “heart of people.” That’s not just sentiment. It’s an alternative scoring system, one that can’t be audited by judges or claimed by a state. It belongs to the crowd.

Context matters: Korbut wasn’t merely a champion; she became a phenomenon, selling a style of gymnastics that felt human - expressive, vulnerable, thrilling - at a time when dominance was often packaged as machine-like perfection. Her phrasing unintentionally underscores the point. The awkward English makes it harder to hear as PR and easier to hear as desire: to be remembered as more than a tally, to earn affection that outlasts the podium. In a culture obsessed with “more,” she’s arguing for “most”: connection.

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Korbut, Olga. (n.d.). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-probably-this-is-helps-to-win-to-win-to-gold-151914/

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Korbut, Olga. "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." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-probably-this-is-helps-to-win-to-win-to-gold-151914/.

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"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." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-probably-this-is-helps-to-win-to-win-to-gold-151914/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Olga Korbut

Olga Korbut (born May 16, 1955) is a Athlete from Russia.

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