Immitation is suicide.
I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.
I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.
It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.
We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.
Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.
Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it.
It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.
You don’t swing where you sleep.
Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.
It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.