I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

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.

By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

For love reflects the thing beloved.

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Poverty is just a state of mind.

The key to my collections is sensuality.