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" Don't let people tell you that you can't do something. "
Laurie Hernandez
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" When I'm not training, I'm typically doing anything self-care, so, like, bath bombs and face masks, or, like, having a movie night with my family, if that's possible. "
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" I was an energetic child, always walking on my hands, flipping off of the back of the couch, or jumping up and down on my bed. "
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" Basically, I was a little bit nervous before competing beam at the Olympics, and I had this nervous thing to just talk to myself, like 'You can do it, you can do it.' And right before I hopped up there, I said, 'I got this.' "
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" Homeschooling is great because it's extremely lenient, and so if there's a day I come home from practice and mentally, I'm just exhausted, I can actually just save the test for the next day if I really have to. "
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" Being able to wear contacts, you don't have to worry about your glasses falling off or how you look during your beam routine. As soon as they're in, literally two minutes later, you forget that they're on. "
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" I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that's what it is. I'm a crowd pleaser. "
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" It's weird to hear anyone call me a role model. "
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" Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in. "
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" My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well. "
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" My athlete idol is Usain Bolt. He's inhumanly fast! "
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" The big cheat meal will be a cookies and cream milkshake. "
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" If you think too far ahead, then it'll just stress you out. "
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" My family has always been very close. Ever since I was a kid, everybody was always together, including my grandma. In the mornings, my mom would work, and my grandma would help me get ready and would walk me to school. We were all so close to her. "
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" On Sundays, I just love to go to church and then relax the whole day! "
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" I don't see it as pressure at all. I see it as such an honor to just in some sort of way represent Puerto Rico and Hispanics and all the girls out there. "
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" Through my life, I do want to inspire others. "
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" I am extremely close to my grandma. Growing up, she would always do my hair; she was always the one who would make me chocolate milk or rice when I came home. "
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" I'm glad to be partnered with Orgullosa because I feel that now that I'm able to win a gold medal at the Olympics, win a silver medal, I feel little girls will be able to look up to me, and Hispanics will kind of rise a little more. "
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" It's really hard to be all serious in the tango and not break into laughter. "
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" Since kindergarten, I was the shortest kid in class. They always put me toward the front in school pictures, because you couldn't see me if I was in the back. It was kind of funny. "
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" Coming into 'Dancing With the Stars,' I thought it would be a lot easier. "
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" People call me the human emoji because I think people recognize that if I'm ever thinking something or feeling a certain emotion, it goes straight to my face. So if I'm happy, you'll know I'm happy, and if I'm mad, you'll know I'm mad just by looking at me. "
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" When I perform and the crowd is cheering, there's a ringing noise in my head. I'm just zoned in, and even though I know there are people watching me, all I hear is this ringing inside of me. "
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" I feel that, every day, God molds me into someone that He wants me to be. So if that means just, like, talking to teammates and helping them out, or, like, every so often I'll post a Bible verse on Twitter or Instagram. "
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" I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves. "
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" We're all different, so even though someone is getting a skill before you, it doesn't mean that you're not good enough; it just means you have to wait a little bit, and the skill will come when it comes. "
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" My mom decided that she wanted to put the mirror ball trophy on the coffee table in the center of our living room. When people walk in, it's kind of like, 'Uh.' It's a little weird. Maybe we should put it in the corner or something. "
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" Growing up, there wasn't an exact Hispanic role model that I had. I didn't realize how big a difference I was making, going to the Olympics and being Hispanic, until I would be in an autograph session, and parents would come up to me and say, 'You know, our family is so proud of you, you're really doing Hispanics proud.' "
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" The Olympics was really, really stressful because I had never done anything like it. At the same time, I was understanding something like that could never really happen again. I embraced it and took in everything. "
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