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Simone Biles

The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially when people start to shout and clap their hands in time with the music. That really helps us to go on.
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Hands Important Music People Play Reaction Role Start Time
Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.
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Father Job Service
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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Bad Crazy Laughter Myself Positive
You can still be very good at what you do and have fun.
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Fun Goodness Yourself
So far, my goals stops at making an Olympic team, and then if that happens, then I’ll jot down more goals.
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Goal Myself Stop Team
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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Choice Decision Education Hard Myself
The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.
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Expression Personality Way Yourself
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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Body Myself Time Yourself
Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I’m having as much fun with it as possible.
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Fun Life Oneself Possible
My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don’t use it to pray before a competition. I’ll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.
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Mom Myself Prayer Religious
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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Care Children Growth Myself Young
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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Focus People Thinking
One of my proudest moments was probably 2013 Worlds because I proved to myself that I could do things that I didn’t think I could.
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Moments Myself Oneself Proud Thinking World
That’s what I love about how diverse our team is – we have such different body types, yet together, we build the best team there is. I think we’re stronger together than individually.
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Alone Body Different Love Myself Ourselves Strong Team Thinking
I can only control what I do when I go compete.
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Control Game Myself Sports
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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Myself Need People Worry

I guess I just have really tough skin.

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