There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.

Goals have to be realistic and flexible.

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.

I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.

I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet

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

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.