Top 50 Simone Biles Quotes

I didn’t really ever dream of going to the Olympics until after 2012.

That’s what I love about how diverse our team is – we have such different body types, yet together, we build the best team there is. I think we’re stronger together than individually.

It’s amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn’t matter because you can do anything.

If I disappoint someone, it’s their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don’t know me. I can’t control what they want.

I don’t fear what will happen, but you just get ahead of yourself, like, ‘Oh my gosh, I wish it would happen now.’

Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.

I love a good Netflix binge!

I love competing.

You can have fun and do well. Just let loose a bit.

I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I’ve been to three World Championships… so I think it’s like a win-win.

In the morning, I usually get up between 7:40 A.M. and 7:45 A.M., and then I’ll brush my teeth, do my hair, and just throw on my leotard and my clothes and go to the kitchen.

It hurts my head, but it’s fine because it’s something I do every day. You can’t avoid the gymnastics questions.

I feel like it’s harder because everyone knows I’m the three-time world champion – it’s almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.

They’re like, ‘Oh, you did a…’ and I’m like, ‘I did a what?’ No, I flipped twice. I twisted twice. They go, ‘It’s called a…’ and I’m like, ‘Why do I need to know that? I just need to go and do that.’

I make breakfast, which is usually Kellogg’s Red Berries or egg whites, and then I go to the gym that’s only 10 minutes away.

I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I’m competing against myself to prove that I can do this and that I am very well trained, prepared for it.

A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I’m doing. It’s not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it’s just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it’s hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun.

I didn’t get the high school opportunity, but it always worked out.

At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.

At some point, I’ll have to go get a real job.

I’m very fortunate to have a coach that I got to stay with all this time. Every year the bond gets stronger and better, and we understand each other more. And it’s like she can tell if I walk into the gym what kind of mood I’m in, what she has to fix for the practice I need, or how I’m feeling.

Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it’s like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.

For me to compete at the highest level, training and living a healthy lifestyle is an everyday focus for me, and I’m excited to be a part of the Everyday Awesome team!

We all have skills, I guess.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

The support down here in Rio has been amazing – between my family, Team U.S.A. and Team Kellogg’s, I’ve felt so much love. This whole experience has been a dream come true.

I’m the first Simone Biles.

I started gymnastics when I was six years old. I was at day care, and they took us on a field trip to a gym club, Bannon’s Gymnastix in Houston, and that’s how I got started.

One of my proudest moments was probably 2013 Worlds because I proved to myself that I could do things that I didn’t think I could.

Stay healthy, have fun with it, and embrace all the moments. Because anything can happen.

If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn’t fall.

I feel like I’m small and mighty and pack a powerful punch, just like Tide PODS.

Growing up, it was kind of a struggle being small, since everyone would make fun of you – except for when it came to hide and seek: that’s the only advantage I ever had!

You can’t get too caught up in yourself.

People comment on my pictures, ‘Stay healthy.’

I don’t really think about the degree of difficulty or the possibility of making a mistake. I just try to relax and let my preparation and training take over.

I think I’m teaching my teammates that they can still be successful while having fun and enjoying the moment rather than being a stone cold brick.

It was a very long and hard decision. My dad kept telling me, ‘You can always go to college, but you can’t always go pro.’ That made sense to me.

Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.

Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can’t do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.

I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.

When I was younger, I thought every kid was adopted because that’s all I’ve known. I have everything I need, so I never felt the need to have answers for what happened.

Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering, and most of the time your body’s on auto pilot, so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I’m like, ‘Did I really just do that?’

There are goals that I have, and then I dream of it, and then I make it a reality. If I could crawl out of my skin and see it, it would be really amazing.

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.

I take things one step at a time.

When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.

One of my favourite things to do is compete for a crowd. It’s just really fun for me.

I never felt I had questions or needed answers or had a part of me that was missing.