For me to compete at the highest level, training and living a healthy lifestyle is an everyday focus for me, and I'm excited to be a part of the Everyday Awesome team!
I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.
The support down here in Rio has been amazing - between my family, Team U.S.A. and Team Kellogg's, I've felt so much love. This whole experience has been a dream come true.
Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.
It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.
Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering, and most of the time your body's on auto pilot, so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I'm like, 'Did I really just do that?'
I have everything I need, so there are no blanks left unfilled.
So far, my goals stops at making an Olympic team, and then if that happens, then I'll jot down more goals.
My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.
As a kid growing up, I was never like, 'I want to go to the Olympics,' so having to pass on 2012 because I was too young didn't bother me at all.
I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.
I didn't get the high school opportunity, but it always worked out.
Everything I do is in the gym, so I'm always in gym clothes. I'm excited to explore lifestyle clothes for a little bit.
I don't do bugs.
I take things one step at a time.
The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.
I feel like I'm small and mighty and pack a powerful punch, just like Tide PODS.
I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I've been to three World Championships... so I think it's like a win-win.
If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on me.
If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn't fall.
