My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.
SIMONE BILESIt 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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For me, I don’t think about size – I focus more on being powerful and confident.
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I am like any typical teenager.
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My first experience with gymnastics was when I was in daycare. We took a field trip to a gym, and I was hooked.
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At some point, I’ll have to go get a real job.
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I love a good Netflix binge!
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I spend a lot of time in the gym training, and Core Power is a great fit for my nutritional needs.
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We strive for greatness.
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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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It hurts my head, but it’s fine because it’s something I do every day. You can’t avoid the gymnastics questions.
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I’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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There are goals that I have, and then I dream of it, and then I make it a reality. If I could crawl out of my skin and see it, it would be really amazing.
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If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on me.
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If they said, ‘Do five pull-ups,’ I would always want to do 10.
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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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