The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

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.

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

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 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.