People put too much emphasis on looks.
I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.
To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.
I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.
I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.
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.