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

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" I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Gymnastics is so complex. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Staying healthy and consistent is paramount. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges. "

" 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! "

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

" I need to learn how to face challenges. "

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