In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.

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