If I won gold in 2016, I think it would change my life.
SIMONE BILESIt was a very long and hard decision. My dad kept telling me, ‘You can always go to college, but you can’t always go pro.’ That made sense to me.
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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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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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You can’t get too caught up in yourself.
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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.
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I don’t really think about the degree of difficulty or the possibility of making a mistake. I just try to relax and let my preparation and training take over.
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You don’t have to be serious all the time to do a good job.
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In the morning, I usually get up between 7:40 A.M. and 7:45 A.M., and then I’ll brush my teeth, do my hair, and just throw on my leotard and my clothes and go to the kitchen.
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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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The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.
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At some point, I’ll have to go get a real job.
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I don’t fear what will happen, but you just get ahead of yourself, like, ‘Oh my gosh, I wish it would happen now.’
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I think for me, the most fun competition that I’ve had was my first Worlds.
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We’ve always had each other’s backs in and out of competition. We support each other the most because we’re the only ones that know what it’s like to go through what we do, and so we can’t be more thankful for each other. We’re like sisters.
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Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.
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I have dual citizenship.
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