When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.

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.

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.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity

Vow not to remain stagnant in life. We all have weaknesses in our various lives, but they are not permanent as long as we keep on identifying them and turning them into strengths.

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

When your team scores one run, it's common sense that you have to hold the other team to no runs.

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.