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.
Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.
The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!
Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.
Gymnastics is so complex.
It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.
My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.
My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.
Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.
To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'
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 told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.
