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

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

Don't force anything. Find what you love and stick with it.

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.

There's always a chance. Anything can happen.

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.