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" I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.' "

" I need to learn how to face challenges. "

" My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski. "

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

" I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well. "

" The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well! "

" People put too much emphasis on looks. "

" 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. "

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

" Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold. "

" I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind. "

" Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going. "

" I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one. "

" 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 still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. "

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

" I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries. "

" I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training. "

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