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 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.

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.

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

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.

In the darkest of places, even the slightest glimmer of Light shines as the Sun.

Practice loving kindness wherever you may go.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.

Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.

The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.