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.

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.

I take things one step at a time.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.