Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

I was always known as that stocky, muscular, powerful, short, athlete. People always wondered if I was on steroids, and it was because I wasn't that long and lean, flexible, artistic gymnast. It didn't affect me too much but it got to the point where I tried to be that long and lean gymnast, and it just wasn't possible.