If I won gold in 2016, I think it would change my life.
SIMONE BILESI’m not a celebrity. I’m just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.
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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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Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do 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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I guess I just have really tough skin.
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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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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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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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I never felt I had questions or needed answers or had a part of me that was missing.
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You can have fun and do well. Just let loose a bit.
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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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It 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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When I was younger, I thought every kid was adopted because that’s all I’ve known. I have everything I need, so I never felt the need to have answers for what happened.
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Growing up, it was kind of a struggle being small, since everyone would make fun of you – except for when it came to hide and seek: that’s the only advantage I ever had!
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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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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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