It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.

I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.

I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.

You're amazing, just the way you are.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

Mistake is a mistake only if you make it twice.

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.