"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."

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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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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

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Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

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"I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet."

Nation

"I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner."

Time

"In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through."

Pretty

"I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces."

Love

"I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing."

Want

"I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there."

Creativity

"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."

People

"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."

Public

"It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems."

Education

"The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible."

Family