Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

The No. 1 place I've visited so far was Antwerp, Belgium. That was one of the coolest cities I've ever seen. Every day I woke up, I felt like I was in a movie.

The hardest for me is rings because it is a lot more strength-oriented, while all the other events are about fluidity and flexibility. It's the one event that doesn't coincide with the fluidity, which is my strength.

If you don't have a cohesive team, you won't have good results.

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.