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.

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 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.

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.

The vision is for the sacred-time. Though it delays, joyfully wait for it.

How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract,

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.

In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.