Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

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.

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

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

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.

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.