♪ [inspiring] [crowd cheering] Announcer:<i> A 10 has gone on
the board. That's perfection,</i> <i> and that is Olympic history
for Nadia Comaneci.</i> Well, it feels great
to come back to Montreal, always emotions
when I come here. Even though I've been a couple
of times since the games in '76, just because I also lived
here for a year and a half. And everything that's happening
today with me, and my life, it's because of that moment
that happened here in Montreal. [cheering and applause] Announcer:<i> An extraordinarily
composed young lady at 14.</i> Nadia:<i> Yes, I was a kid, but I
think I knew what I was doing,</i> <i> you know, people -- they
were thinking I was a kid,</i> <i> but I thought that
in my gymnastics</i> <i> I've been so many years
in to the sport</i> <i> that I didn't consider
myself a young person.</i> <i> And I just thought about, you
know, I know what I've done</i> <i> in training, this is what
I'm supposed to do here</i> <i> just to be able to concentrate,
of course I was overwhelmed</i> <i> by so many people because
there was a big arena,</i> <i> and a lot of noise
from every direction.</i> <i> But I think I was
prepared for that</i> <i> and I was telling
to myself all the time.</i> <i> You know, this is the Olympics.</i> <i> I cannot make a mistake.
This is one shot.</i> [cheering and applause] Announcer:<i> 10 she's got.
She's got another 10.</i> [cheering and applause] Announcer:<i> It is quite
incredible.</i> Nadia:<i> I didn't -- I knew that
10 was a big deal,</i> because I've done gymnastics
for eight -- nine years before, and I've done competitions, and
I did the same routines before, but because I was too young
to understand that. <i> And I think it was better
that I didn't understand.</i> <i> I didn't come here
to Montreal to make history.</i> <i> I didn't even know what
that meant, to make history.</i> <i> Nobody told me that a perfect
10 was never scored</i> before in Olympic history. So I just went to do
whatever I planned to do, <i> and whatever I trained to do.</i> [applause] Announcer:<i> Faultless.
Absolutely faultless.</i> <i> She is a magnificent gymnastic.</i> As the older I get, I realize
that what I've done was such a big thing,
which I didn't realize then. You're 14, and I look around
when I see kids that 13, 14 years old, and I think
I was that age when I was like,
"I know what I'm doing. I'm going to go
to the Olympics." <i> I -- still question
myself how a little kid</i> <i> has that kind of drive
to be able to do that.</i> ♪ ♪ You just go, girl.
That's what I was saying. Yeah, never give up, and just follow what you
feel inside your heart. Announcer:<i> Olympic champion,
Nadia Comaneci.</i> [applause and cheering] But there was the moment
everything came together.
