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.
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I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.
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Gymnastics is so complex.
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It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.
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People put too much emphasis on looks.
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I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
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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.
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It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.