My first experience with gymnastics was when I was in daycare. We took a field trip to a gym, and I was hooked.
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.
A typical practice consists of practicing every event for about an hour. A lot of people assume I have private coaching, but I work out with 13 other girls at the gym!
I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.
I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.
Gymnastics is so complex.
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?'
I've always had an undeniable love for gymnastics.
I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.
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.
Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.
Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.
I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.
If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
I did rhythmic gymnastics and I absolutely adored it. I was in the squad for Sussex. I wasn't stupendous, but it was something that I was good at and I really loved the combination of discipline and expression. That, to me, was just dreamy.
The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.
I have always been a huge fan of gymnastics.
I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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.
Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
