I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things

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.

We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us

Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

We do not actually know other people; we only know our judgments.

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.