For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

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.

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.

I do know that living in the past only messes up your present

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.

Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.