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.

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

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

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.

No competition, no progress.

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