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Gymnastics is so complex.
Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
People put too much emphasis on looks.
I don't want to be all power and muscle.
If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.
Staying healthy and consistent is paramount.
There's always a chance. Anything can happen.
I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.
I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.
My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.
Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.
Well-I don't know if anyone would really ask me to prom.
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.
I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.
I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.
Don't force anything. Find what you love and stick with it.
Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.
I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now.
I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.
To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.
I was always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.
It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.
I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.
I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.
Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.
Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.
That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!
My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.
I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life.
I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off.
People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!
To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.
I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.
I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.
I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.
I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.
Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.