As athletes, we’re always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don’t think about it.
SIMONE BILESEverything is possible at any one competition.
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For me, I don’t think about size – I focus more on being powerful and confident.
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I’m the first Simone Biles.
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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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At some point, I’ll have to go get a real job.
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I make breakfast, which is usually Kellogg’s Red Berries or egg whites, and then I go to the gym that’s only 10 minutes away.
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My first experience with gymnastics was when I was in daycare. We took a field trip to a gym, and I was hooked.
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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 can only control what I do when I go compete.
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There are goals that I have, and then I dream of it, and then I make it a reality. If I could crawl out of my skin and see it, it would be really amazing.
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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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I’m always trying to push myself to the limit to see what I can do. It’s my strong will that I’ve always had since I was a kid.
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The support down here in Rio has been amazing – between my family, Team U.S.A. and Team Kellogg’s, I’ve felt so much love. This whole experience has been a dream come true.
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It’s amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn’t matter because you can do anything.
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Everything is possible at any one competition.
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I love a good Netflix binge!
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It doesn’t even matter if I don’t win a self-gold – after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.
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I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I’m competing against myself to prove that I can do this and that I am very well trained, prepared for it.
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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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If they said, ‘Do five pull-ups,’ I would always want to do 10.
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I started gymnastics when I was six years old. I was at day care, and they took us on a field trip to a gym club, Bannon’s Gymnastix in Houston, and that’s how I got started.
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You can’t get too caught up in yourself.
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Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.
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Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can’t do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.
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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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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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You can still be very good at what you do and have fun.
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