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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Staying healthy and consistent is paramount. "

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

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

" Gymnastics is so complex. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" People put too much emphasis on looks. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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