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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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