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.

Well-I don't know if anyone would really ask me to prom.

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

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

I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.