I know [people] think I'm taller because it's so close and I look stretched out, but I'm just 4-8.

I would hope I would inspire kids everywhere to know that you can do anything you put your mind to.

Thank you guys for believing in my ability and supporting me in my Olympic journey.

It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it.

To me, I go out there, and I do what I trained. We prepare so long for that moment, so it's just kind of exciting.

Everything I do is in the gym so I'm always in gym clothes.

Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation.

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

I'm excited to explore lifestyle clothes for a little bit. I don't necessarily have favorite brands.

[People saying to me] "You look taller on TV." I get that all the time.

In the morning, I usually get up between 7:40 A.M. and 7:45 A.M., and then I'll brush my teeth, do my hair, and just throw on my leotard and my clothes and go to the kitchen.

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

Everything okay?”“I’m not sure, but it’s not shittier, so that’s something.”She laughed. “Still an optimist.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised. I'm attracted to getting rid of worldly possessions.

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.

Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

People think I'm nuts.