The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.
Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.
There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.
We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.
Goals have to be realistic and flexible.
Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear.
There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone
Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass. . . ourselves. And this is but progress.
Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Optional is latin for 'Be There'.