Alicia Sacramone Quotes

We are comfortable in our bodies, we know how healthy we are.

I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.

You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case.

For the most part, yeah, I'm happy with my body, but there are days when I'm like, 'Ugh! Really? Why is it so hard to fit into my jeans?' That's when I say to myself, 'I look this way because I'm supposed to. If we all looked the same, we'd be boring.'

Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see... it's what I feel like.

You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.

Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.

Even though I'm in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues... from the way that I look or the way that I talk... just nitpicking at myself.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.