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.

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.

So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

I don't believe that there's anyone in the world without a competitive bone in their body.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.