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.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear.

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.

I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.

I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.