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" Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. "

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" I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008. "

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" I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom. "

" I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off. "

" I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now. "

" 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. "

" I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train! "

" In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued. "

" I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have. "

" I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep! "

" I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September. "

" A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. "

" With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. "

" I don't know where I'm really going to cha cha, but hopefully I can find a place. "

" I don't feel like a star; I never have. I don't feel like a star; I never have. I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one. I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself. "

" I need to learn how to face challenges. "

" People put too much emphasis on looks. "

" My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do. "

" I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport. "

" A typical practice consists of practicing every event for about an hour. A lot of people assume I have private coaching, but I work out with 13 other girls at the gym! "

" 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. "

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" I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. "

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