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" People put too much emphasis on looks. "

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

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

" Staying healthy and consistent is paramount. "

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

" I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. "

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" 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. "

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" I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now. "

" 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 don't want to be all power and muscle. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "