Simone Biles Quotes

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

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

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.

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

Gymnastics is so complex.

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

I was a gymnast for years.

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'

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.

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

Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

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

I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the floor. I was terrible at everything else, especially beam. Unfortunately, you can't be a gymnast unless you're good at all of the apparatuses, so I became a competitive cheerleader. I was just the main tumbler for my squad.

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

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

I have always been a huge fan of gymnastics.

It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

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 can do all my jumps in practice, three in a row, five out of five, four out of five.

Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

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.

The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too.