It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.

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.

Always have a 'Plan C

Unfortunately most people do not listen with the intent to understand

A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact.

Behind every successful man there is a woman, behind every successful woman there are wonderful parents

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

Are you threatening to kidnap me?" "If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.

You wanna know what a gateway drug is? It opens a gate.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

Oh what a friend chance can be — when it chooses.