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

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

" 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. "

" We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough. "

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

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

" 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 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.' "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old. "

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

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

" Gymnastics is so complex. "

" 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. "

" I need to learn how to face challenges. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

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