Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

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.

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

As wonders, miracles are always astonishing, but as signs they are never wholly inexplicable.

In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.

If you ever have to sacrifice something good, have faith that God will reward you with something GREAT

Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.