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?’
SIMONE BILESI guess I just have really tough skin.
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One of my favourite things to do is compete for a crowd. It’s just really fun for me.
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I have everything I need, so there are no blanks left unfilled.
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The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.
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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 just keep surprising myself, I guess.
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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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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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If I disappoint someone, it’s their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don’t know me. I can’t control what they want.
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If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on 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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My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.
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I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.
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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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If I won gold in 2016, I think it would change my life.
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I think we have other things to worry about than some Zika virus.
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