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.

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.

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

I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.