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

It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.

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

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

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

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.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.