In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that’s pretty tough to get through.
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.
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.
I can now successfully drive a stick. That’s a huge accomplishment.
I don’t believe that there’s anyone in the world without a competitive bone in their body.
Everyone has obstacles, and you’re not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.
Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.
Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it’s not a whole lot more than that.
I’m an athlete rep, so I’ll be available if they need me for anything.
Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear.
I’m coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.
If you can’t handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.
So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you’re wrong.
There is always going to be a reason why you can’t do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.
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.
I want to bring more gymnastics on television.
In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.
And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we’re not in the Olympics.
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.
We typically don’t choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.