After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.

It's totally freeing when I stay in tune with scripture. I don't have to worry if I miss a dive. I go into competition and it's like, "Praise God no matter what."

Don’t be afraid to have goals and dreams. Even in the face of haters and those who do not believe in you, don’t stop dreaming.

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become

To love one that is great is almost to be great one's self.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

War is 90% information.

Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being.

When I say the word You, I mean a hundred universes.