You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.