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.
SIMONE BILESAs athletes, we’re always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don’t think about it.
More Simone Biles Quotes
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If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on me.
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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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We all have skills, I guess.
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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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I think for me, the most fun competition that I’ve had was my first Worlds.
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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 have practice from 9 A.M. to 12 P.M., and then I drive home and eat lunch, which is either chicken or fish so I get the protein.
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I would be like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I wish I could go to prom.’ But then I think, ‘You know what? A lot of people can’t say they’ve ever done what I do – they’ll never have this opportunity.’
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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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At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.
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I just keep surprising myself, I guess.
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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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When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.
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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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