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.

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.

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.

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

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.

They were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.

You know you have found your life mission when you say, “I dare you to try and take this away from me.

Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.