And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.

This is the first year [since 1992] USA Gymnastics has promoted a [post-Olympic] tour by themselves, and they've gone about it wrong. I don't agree with the athletes' being asked to sign something they don't believe in and the bad-mouthing of athletes for signing on one tour instead of the other. To have that coming down from the top of your governing body is just not right.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.