"Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect."
"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
Albert Einstein on Respect"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
Albert Einstein on Respect"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
Malcolm X on Respect"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
Abraham Lincoln on Respect"We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough."
"The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!"
"I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it."
"I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'"
"I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well."