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

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.

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.

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.

Business is like a game and you play the game only in two ways. Either you play to Win or Play not to Lose

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

How would your life change if your self-esteem improved?

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

I've always had a strange fear of spoons.

Only dead fish go with the flow.