It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

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'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.

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.

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.

My life will be measured in years

Remember, there's few things as powerful as being true to yourself.

You're just not thinking fourth dimensionally.

Sometimes we punish ourselves the most.

Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, "Hey... We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad".

With every single role, you're not going to get a role unless you invest your whole heart into it.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.