I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.

Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.

She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.

It just meant a lot because it's something I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a Senior National Champ. I was Junior National Champ in 2002, so now to be the senior champ is great.

Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

I think we all have had better days in competition.

I think it helps me. You know, I've got two more meets under my belt, and that's always a good thing.

Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things

I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from 'Thank God it's Friday' to 'Thank God it's Monday.' If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent.

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

By the time I'm done with my show, I'm in Never-Never Land. Usually I leave the room for the auction and try to chill out.

The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.

It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

I'm not here to - as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.

Connectivity is productivity whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

For 'Vikings,' we have to do so much outside shooting, and it's normally - I think with American shows, it'll be 60 or 70 percent inside and a little bit outside, but with us, it's almost 70 percent outside, and that's huge and really difficult.

Albacore tuna has a mild flavor that's delicious served raw or seared briefly on the outside so that it's still rare on the inside.

Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

Warm weather fosters growth cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings and his beneficence will extend to posterity.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter.

We have to build bridges of peace instead of building walls of wars.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

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