"The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible"
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"If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine."
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"Doing your best is more important than being the best."
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"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."
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"Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again."
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"Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short."
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"It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems."
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"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."
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"Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear."
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"When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself."
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"It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for."
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"Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level."
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"Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that."
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"At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country."
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"I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run."
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"I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment."
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"I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet."
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"There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden."
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"For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do."
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"In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way."
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