Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it’s like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.
SIMONE BILESIt doesn’t even matter if I don’t win a self-gold – after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.
More Simone Biles Quotes
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I love competing.
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People comment on my pictures, ‘Stay healthy.’
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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?’
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Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I’m having as much fun with it as possible.
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As athletes, we’re always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don’t think about it.
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My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.
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Every year, I think of Worlds as the big meet, but now, it’s the Olympics. I’m blessed to even have the opportunity to think about it and work for it.
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If anybody has a bad day, they’ll just come to my room because they know I’ll bring out the positive in everything, or I’ll make them laugh, or I’ll be just crazy.
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You can still be very good at what you do and have fun.
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It hurts my head, but it’s fine because it’s something I do every day. You can’t avoid the gymnastics questions.
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At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.
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When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.
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I tune it all out because if I let other people’s stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.
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I never felt I had questions or needed answers or had a part of me that was missing.
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I feel like it’s harder because everyone knows I’m the three-time world champion – it’s almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.
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