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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London. "

" I know how much more I need to do to be where I want. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that. "

" My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart. "

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

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

" Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. "

" My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Staying healthy and consistent is paramount. "

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

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

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

" I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself. "

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