In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.
If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.
At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country.
Goals have to be realistic and flexible.
And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.