Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it’s like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.
SIMONE BILESI didn’t really ever dream of going to the Olympics until after 2012.
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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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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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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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Everything is possible at any one competition.
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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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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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When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.
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If they said, ‘Do five pull-ups,’ I would always want to do 10.
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We go to church on Sunday and then have family dinner. My mom usually cooks, and most of the time, it’s protein and something else. She will ask us kids what we want!
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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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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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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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You can have fun and do well. Just let loose a bit.
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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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