"I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy."
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"I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad."
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"Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect."
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"Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason."
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"I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before."
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"When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps."
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