I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!
There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.
Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.
I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.
We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.
The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.
Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
I will always love gymnastics.
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
Gymnastics is so complex.
People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.
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 want to bring more gymnastics on television.
In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.
And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.
We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.
In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.
Above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.
There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.
Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.
