I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.

There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

I don't know how to thank everyone for all their help.

I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not.But of course interns are paid, in experience.

When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.

south to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington. Today,

I've married a few people I shouldn't have but haven't we all?

Get the big idea and all else follows.

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.