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.

I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved.

The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!

In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.

Healthy people will marry healthy people because you will always end up with the person whom you believe you deserve.

I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.

I fight because I like challenges.

That's the great thing about 'Corrie': it is an ensemble cast, and it didn't rest on one person's shoulders by any means.

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

You never really know a woman until you've seen her jewelry.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

That's the thing about time travel you're always moving forward, even when you go back.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.