I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest

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.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

God hears every cry.

Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.