Top 35 MyKayla Skinner Quotes

A lot of people don’t get to see the behind-the-scenes of what we go through and what it’s like. We aren’t perfect people. Everyone on social media is like, ‘They’re so perfect, they have their life together, gymnastics looks so easy.’ We work our butts off to get to where we are.

That’s really what gymnastics should be. It should always be a beautiful and inspiring thing to so many people.

I miss out on tons of stuff.

I’ve accomplished so much. I’m just really proud of myself for even being able to do what I have.

I wasn’t even expecting to make the Worlds team.

While I love college gymnastics, I’d like to try and compete for my country.

I’m 24, which I know doesn’t sound very old. But in the world of gymnastics it is. The Tokyo Games are my last shot to compete as a gymnast for Team USA, and my last shot at winning a gold medal.

It was hard being an alternate for the third time. But for me, it was OK because I made the World team and looking back five months ago, I didn’t think I’d have that opportunity.

A year does go by kind of fast.

I got to be calm, but I mean, it’s the Olympics. Anybody wants to go out and do their best, so it’s definitely a different kind of pressure.

I feel like anytime I have a vacation, I’m stressed, or ‘I got to go back in the gym,’ like I’m going to miss so much time that I need to be working on improving.

The Olympics are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I’ve worked so hard to get this far.

After Rio, I joined the gymnastics team at the University of Utah. It was a hard transition, because I’ve always competed in elite gymnastics, where we throw big skills. In college, you don’t get any points for difficulty, but once I got the hang of it, it was a piece of cake.

It’s pretty awesome to work this hard and come from Arizona.

Being married has been the best thing ever.

There’s a lot of pressure being an Olympic athlete.

For me, I’m just really excited to have a life.

Being an alternate is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in gymnastics.

I couldn’t even think about elite gymnastics for a while. It was definitely good for me to try something different.

It’s just so weird coming into the gym and not feeling like, you know, ‘I’m going to die.’ Before it was like, ‘I’ve got to hit that routine or I’m going to get yelled at.’ So it’s just been really nice to kind of relax a little bit and be able to really focus on gymnastics and get to enjoy it more.

Nobody’s perfect. I feel like I can handle the pressure pretty well, even though sometimes I feel like I’m psyching myself out a little bit.

I’ve only been to Disneyland once, when I was 8.

I’m just going to go out there and do me and worry about myself because that’s all that matters.

I survived, but I wanted to give up so many times.

It might look like it’s easy, but no one really knows how hard it is. Especially when you go from a college bars routine that has four skills to elite with 10-12 or maybe even more. It’s a big jump.

I am doing communications in journalism to do sports broadcasting. I’d love to go into that kind of stuff.

You never know what anyone’s going through, and you always want to be there and be that teammate to support them.

I’m enjoying gymnastics. Having people there to cheer you on is an amazing feeling and such a cool opportunity.

It is hard when you fall. I know that feeling. That disappointment sucks. You’ve just got to get up and keep moving.

I’m doing extra stretching and more leaps and turns. Working on toe points. I’m working hard on it.

The whole time I was in Rio, I probably cried every single night.

I’m doing fine with college.

I can’t control who makes the team or not. I’m just happy to be an alternate.

I know what I want, my dreams and goals.

The Olympics should be something so special, but I feel like it was definitely miserable at times.