Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.

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.

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.

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

Toxic people sell you short. When you listen to them, you give them power, that’s when you sell yourself short.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.

America is a bunch o' bullies. Tell me what the Iraq uniform is like. Don't worry, I'll wait.

We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion. Rage.

The antidote to fear is faith.

We all come from a woman. We have to make love.