Simone Biles Quotes

I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

I have always been a huge fan of gymnastics.

I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.

I was a gymnast as a little girl.

I've always had a fascination with gymnastics, since I was a kid. It was the one thing at the Olympics that I would be like, 'Mom can I stay up late to watch gymnastics?'

Gymnastics is so complex.

I do tumbling and flips; there's a gym I go to for that.

The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.

I've always had an undeniable love for gymnastics.

I was a gymnast for years.

Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.

I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

My mom was a high school gymnast.

I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.

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.

Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.

What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.