I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.

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

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

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

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

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.