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"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."
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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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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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