Quotes from Simone Biles

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.

Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.

If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy.

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

I don't necessarily have favorite brands.

I don't do bugs.

We go to church on Sunday and then have family dinner. My mom usually cooks, and most of the time, it's protein and something else. She will ask us kids what we want!

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

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?'

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

I have dual citizenship.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

I would hope I would inspire kids everywhere to know that you can do anything you put your mind to.

It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.

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.

People comment on my pictures, 'Stay healthy.'

I can only control what I do when I go compete.

My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.

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.

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

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.

As athletes, we're always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don't think about it.

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.

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.