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.

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.

What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

We have all encountered some failures in our life, but some people became failures because they perceived theirs to be permanent.

Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

April's rare capricious loveliness.

Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?