I know gymnastics. It’s always been a subjective appreciation.

When I open many books, or most leading women’s magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don’t find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man’s finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

This team just wasn’t good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

I am very impressed with what I have seen here. I could not imagine arriving in northwest Arkansas to see a facility with the magnitude, with the beauty, and with the arrangement of whatever is in there that goes beyond the imagination.

I know that this is the greatest promotion besides the Olympic games that we can give to the country. These towns are going crazy to see these Olympic champions live.

They have to have a home, something they can be proud of. They have to have somewhere they can say, 'I'm going to the ranch. I'm going to the temple of gymnastics. I'm going to show my stuff. I'm going to be selected.'

It was a march of triumph since 2000,

You are already winners every time you step into this gym. And, parents, you are to be congratulated.

I think the ones who are involved in this part of the gymnastic activity in this part of the country are surely deserving of all the congratulations. I hope that in a few years this program will be at the top of whole country.