I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.
I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.
It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.
Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?
Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.
When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.
Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.
It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.
If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.
'I Got a Feeling' by the Black Eyed Peas - Reminds me of happy, fun times with my friends and makes me want to jump around.
When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.
If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.
It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.
I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.
With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.
I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.
The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.
Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.
What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.
