I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.

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.

Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.

You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks...We've dumbed it down.

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!

The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.

Whenever I do anything, I need to take 15 or 20 minutes, maybe longer, to regroup.