Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job.

It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."

Part of being a good gymnast is being very disciplined - you have to know how to train right, eat right, sleep right.

I'm very disciplined in many aspects of my life, and I think a lot of that has to do with how I was raised and the sport I've been in my whole life.

I eat very clean foods, healthy foods and drink a lot of water.

There is a period of tapering when we're not in the gym quite as long to try to save our bodies, but leading up to the competition we try to keep things similar to the rest of the year.

I'm on my own, luckily doing well, but like I said, we don't make a ridiculous amount of money and I have to be disciplined with what I do with it.

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

When I was 22, I finally reached that huge goal. Now I'm going for another one. It's so satisfying. It's something that I worked for for so long, and just to know that I got it feels so great.

I'm able to support my wife and family off of gymnastics. But at the same time I do take it very seriously - it is a job for me.

The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.

Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?

That which we are, we are.

I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.