My first experience with gymnastics was when I was in daycare. We took a field trip to a gym, and I was hooked.
SIMONE BILESThe 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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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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If I won gold in 2016, I think it would change my life.
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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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I’m not a celebrity. I’m just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.
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For me, I don’t think about size – I focus more on being powerful and confident.
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You don’t have to be serious all the time to do a good job.
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The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.
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In the morning, I usually get up between 7:40 A.M. and 7:45 A.M., and then I’ll brush my teeth, do my hair, and just throw on my leotard and my clothes and go to the kitchen.
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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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Stay healthy, have fun with it, and embrace all the moments. Because anything can happen.
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I feel like it’s harder because everyone knows I’m the three-time world champion – it’s almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.
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I didn’t get the high school opportunity, but it always worked out.
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The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.
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You can’t get too caught up in yourself.
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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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