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.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

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

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

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.