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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.

Simone Biles

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
You can’t get too caught up in yourself.
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One Liner Yourself
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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Dream Experience Family Feeling Love Myself Support Team True
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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Fun Growth Hide Kind Myself Struggle Yourself
I can only control what I do when I go compete.
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Control Game Myself Sports
For me, I don’t think about size – I focus more on being powerful and confident.
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Confidence Focus Myself Powerful Thinking
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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Control Disappoint Expectation Loss Myself
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
You don’t have to be serious all the time to do a good job.
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Goodness Job Serious Time Yourself
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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Food Gold Myself Reward Win
I think we have other things to worry about than some Zika virus.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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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Beginning Myself Sports Start
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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Children Limitation Myself Strong Willing
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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Athlete Pain Team Thinking Yourself
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
The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.
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Actor Art Sports

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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