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I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

Simone Biles

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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Experience Myself
I didn’t get the high school opportunity, but it always worked out.
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Myself Opportunity Work
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
My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.
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Ability Best Myself Need Ourselves Parents
You don’t have to be serious all the time to do a good job.
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Goodness Job Serious Time Yourself
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
For me to compete at the highest level, training and living a healthy lifestyle is an everyday focus for me, and I’m excited to be a part of the Everyday Awesome team!
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Excitement Health Live Myself Team Training
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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Family Mom Myself Time
I take things one step at a time.
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Myself Oneself Time
I didn’t really ever dream of going to the Olympics until after 2012.
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Dream Myself Sports
At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.
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Day Ending Fun Goodness Myself
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
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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Appearance Body Inspirational Myself 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
Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.
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Light Myself Prayer Religious
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

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

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