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" My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did. "
Laurie Hernandez
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" If you think too far ahead, then it'll just stress you out. "
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" Of course I'm very sassy. "
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" On Sundays, I just love to go to church and then relax the whole day! "
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" My parents have tried not to intrude. They kind of stayed apart from my gymnastics but are very supportive, and that's very helpful as a gymnast to not have your parents say, 'Did you do this today?' and just be very on top of you. "
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" 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. "
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" I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves. "
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" I hope the Final Five has shown that everyone is capable of success if they work hard. "
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" 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. "
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" Every year, my mom makes sure I have my checkups and everything, which is probably a really good idea. She's great with all that health stuff. "
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" I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra. "
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" I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that's what it is. I'm a crowd pleaser. "
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" My mom decided that she wanted to put the mirror ball trophy on the coffee table in the center of our living room. When people walk in, it's kind of like, 'Uh.' It's a little weird. Maybe we should put it in the corner or something. "
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" Sometimes you just don't know what to say. "
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" Honestly, I don't really know the rules of tango! "
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" 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. "
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" I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up. "
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" You're supposed to go to prom during high school. I don't go to high school. I homeschool. "
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" I am extremely close to my grandma. Growing up, she would always do my hair; she was always the one who would make me chocolate milk or rice when I came home. "
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" Basically, I was a little bit nervous before competing beam at the Olympics, and I had this nervous thing to just talk to myself, like 'You can do it, you can do it.' And right before I hopped up there, I said, 'I got this.' "
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" I love my height because when I'm doing gymnastics, it really benefits the sport - and also, I think being short is kind of cute. "
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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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" The big cheat meal will be a cookies and cream milkshake. "
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" When I was a little kid, I don't remember looking up and seeing so many Hispanic athletes out there. "
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" I don't think that being Hispanic, being black, being white - I don't think that limits you to anything. I think everyone should just go for what they want. "
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" I'm glad to be partnered with Orgullosa because I feel that now that I'm able to win a gold medal at the Olympics, win a silver medal, I feel little girls will be able to look up to me, and Hispanics will kind of rise a little more. "
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" I tell everyone that I'm 5 feet-1 inch tall, but I think I'm technically 5 feet. My mom says she's 4 feet 11 inches, and I'm barely taller than her. "
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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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