People put too much emphasis on looks.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.

I don't want to be all power and muscle.

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.