Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

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.

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.

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process.

Pronaci cemo se.Onda kada i vreme zaboravi na nas.Pronaci ces me negde u sebi, tu gde se krijes iza laznih i prolaznih ociju.

Dont feel sorry for no one if they dont feel sorry for you

Life has always poppies in her hands.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

I don't really like thanksgiving food, i'm not worried about overeating.

Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.