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" If I could go anywhere, I'd love to visit Greece someday because it looks so beautiful, and I'd also love to go to Mexico. "
Laurie Hernandez
Go
Beautiful
Mexico
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" Having the opportunity to go to the U.S. Olympics was great because I was the first Latina in over 30 years to compete in gymnastics at the Olympics. "
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Opportunity
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" When you're a little girl, and you're watching the Olympics, and you see this very diverse group of gymnasts out there, and - I think this team, the Final 5, will inspire so many little girls to go out there and do what they love. "
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Love
Little Girls
Think
" Growing up and seeing Shawn Johnson, for her to call me on the phone, I think my inner child was freaking out! "
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Me
Child
" Two people who really inspire me are my parents, Wanda and Anthony, just because they really made sure to keep up Hispanic culture in my family. "
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Me
Culture
" Meeting kids who feel inspired by my story, it means so much to me. "
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Meeting
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" The Olympics was really, really stressful because I had never done anything like it. At the same time, I was understanding something like that could never really happen again. I embraced it and took in everything. "
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Done
Never
" I don't see it as pressure at all. I see it as such an honor to just in some sort of way represent Puerto Rico and Hispanics and all the girls out there. "
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Honor
" Something that would probably surprise my fans is that I wear contact lenses, and nobody really knows that because I guess I've never really had to tell anybody about that. "
Laurie Hernandez
Tell
Surprise
Nobody
" I never look at scores or anything. "
Laurie Hernandez
Never
Anything
Look
" Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in. "
Laurie Hernandez
Doing
Control
Maturity
" As an athlete, the most important thing is the protein that you eat and the things that you put into your body. Without that, it's very hard to function throughout the day. "
Laurie Hernandez
Eat
Day
Body
" My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits. "
Laurie Hernandez
Habits
Because
Eating
" Dancing is so much fun. "
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Much
Fun
Dancing
" I feel that, every day, God molds me into someone that He wants me to be. So if that means just, like, talking to teammates and helping them out, or, like, every so often I'll post a Bible verse on Twitter or Instagram. "
Laurie Hernandez
God
Day
Me
" I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra. "
Laurie Hernandez
Art
Think
Science
" I hope the Final Five has shown that everyone is capable of success if they work hard. "
Laurie Hernandez
Work Hard
Hope
Everyone
" I feel I could be a role model to other Hispanic gymnasts interested in the sport, but I also want them to understand the importance of being focused, determined, and not giving up, despite all the struggles. "
Laurie Hernandez
Giving Up
Giving
Role Model
" On Sundays, I just love to go to church and then relax the whole day! "
Laurie Hernandez
Day
Love
Relax
" My family has always been very close. Ever since I was a kid, everybody was always together, including my grandma. In the mornings, my mom would work, and my grandma would help me get ready and would walk me to school. We were all so close to her. "
Laurie Hernandez
Family
Work
Walk
" When I perform and the crowd is cheering, there's a ringing noise in my head. I'm just zoned in, and even though I know there are people watching me, all I hear is this ringing inside of me. "
Laurie Hernandez
Me
People
Know
" People call me the human emoji because I think people recognize that if I'm ever thinking something or feeling a certain emotion, it goes straight to my face. So if I'm happy, you'll know I'm happy, and if I'm mad, you'll know I'm mad just by looking at me. "
Laurie Hernandez
People
Happy
Think
" I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico. "
Laurie Hernandez
Puerto
I Am
Grandparents
" Of course I'm very sassy. "
Laurie Hernandez
Very
Sassy
Course
" People would be surprised to know I had a flip phone until 2015. "
Laurie Hernandez
Phone
People
Surprised
" People have always asked me why my favorite event was floor, and my answer was always, 'Because I love to dance!' "
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Love
Me
" Honestly, I don't really know the rules of tango! "
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Rules
Know
Really
" A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport. "
Laurie Hernandez
Work
Games
Hard
" Usually, before I salute the judge, I'm able to just grab the event, and I pray on it, and that really grounds me. For some reason, once I do that, I am able to think clearly, and I'm able to calm down right before I compete. "
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Down
Judge
Me
" Everyone keeps asking me when I have time to rest. I'll tell you when: I get all my sleep on planes. If the flight is five hours, my nap is five hours! I'll sleep through the whole flight. "
Laurie Hernandez
Rest
Flight
Sleep
" My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did. "
Laurie Hernandez
Wanting
Big
Watching