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"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."
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"When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me."

"For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do."

"My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in."

"At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one."

"Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that."

"I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law."

"At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country."
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"The body is not a reliable friend."

"All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all."

"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."

"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."

"The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms."
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"Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much."
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