At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

I don't tend to go out that much.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.