I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.

My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters.