Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

One more soldier of the Cross has taken up his crown

The world is with you.

I want the peace in knowing that is wasn’t for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?