I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.

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.

She'll let you put her in her place, But she won't stand for anything worse than first.

An innovator sees things not as they are, but as they could be.

Better to be dirty than dead.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow

I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.

My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.