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" Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old. "
Laurie Hernandez
Secretly
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" 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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" 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'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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" On Sundays, I just love to go to church and then relax the whole day! "
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" Being able to wear contacts, you don't have to worry about your glasses falling off or how you look during your beam routine. As soon as they're in, literally two minutes later, you forget that they're on. "
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" My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 think a big part of what has helped me move forward with the sport is my family. We're all so close together, and the support system has been amazing. "
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