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

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.

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 had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

It is the information we have that will determine who will hold a dominant position in this world

How can you forgive someone when they can't give a reason why?

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

Context shapes who you are.

I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and go out and compete again. That's the mark of championship spirit.

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

When your effort results in the desired effect, then you have worked.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.