I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up.

I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra.

If you want to train hard enough to go to the Olympics, then you're going to go out, and you're going to do it. It doesn't matter what skin color or who you are.

I was an energetic child, always walking on my hands, flipping off of the back of the couch, or jumping up and down on my bed.

The big cheat meal will be a cookies and cream milkshake.

Something that would probably surprise my fans is that I wear contact lenses, and nobody really knows that because I guess I've never really had to tell anybody about that.

Coming into 'Dancing With the Stars,' I thought it would be a lot easier.

I hope I can help inspire people to go for their dreams.

It's kind of like I won a gold medal with my family.

When you have family with you, it gives you extra energy.

Usually, before I salute the judge, I'm able to just grab the event, and I pray on it, and that really grounds me. For some reason, once I do that, I am able to think clearly, and I'm able to calm down right before I compete.

My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I'm traveling!

Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in.

I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves.

If I could go anywhere, I'd love to visit Greece someday because it looks so beautiful, and I'd also love to go to Mexico.

Being able to do something that I love and be at such a high level of gymnastics is just amazing.

I don't think that being Hispanic, being black, being white - I don't think that limits you to anything. I think everyone should just go for what they want.

Growing up and seeing Shawn Johnson, for her to call me on the phone, I think my inner child was freaking out!

Since kindergarten, I was the shortest kid in class. They always put me toward the front in school pictures, because you couldn't see me if I was in the back. It was kind of funny.

We're all different, so even though someone is getting a skill before you, it doesn't mean that you're not good enough; it just means you have to wait a little bit, and the skill will come when it comes.

I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that's what it is. I'm a crowd pleaser.

Honestly, I don't really know the rules of tango!

The best part is when parents come up to me with their kids, and they say, 'My daughter started gymnastics because of you.'

As far as cartoons go, I watched a lot of 'Ed, Edd, n Eddy' when I was a kid.

Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.

I've been to Tokyo-slash-Japan - we actually went to Yokohama in 2015 and 2013 for international competitions. I think that it would be really nice to go back and do a little Olympic thing there.

I'm confident. I'm a crowd pleaser.

Basically, I was a little bit nervous before competing beam at the Olympics, and I had this nervous thing to just talk to myself, like 'You can do it, you can do it.' And right before I hopped up there, I said, 'I got this.'

My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did.

I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven.

A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport.

I would love to be an actress!

Two people who really inspire me are my parents, Wanda and Anthony, just because they really made sure to keep up Hispanic culture in my family.

Life has been a really big whirlwind, but it's been a lot of fun. I travel so much, and I'm constantly doing things that I love, but it's just me.

The first meal that I learned to make was scrambled eggs.

As an athlete, the most important thing is the protein that you eat and the things that you put into your body. Without that, it's very hard to function throughout the day.

I listen to a lot of music. One of my favorite songs is 'Final Song' by M. It's something that I listen to before a lot of competitions.

Of course I'm very sassy.

My family has always been very close. Ever since I was a kid, everybody was always together, including my grandma. In the mornings, my mom would work, and my grandma would help me get ready and would walk me to school. We were all so close to her.

When I was a little kid, I don't remember looking up and seeing so many Hispanic athletes out there.

Don't let people tell you that you can't do something.

I hope the Final Five has shown that everyone is capable of success if they work hard.

I am extremely close to my grandma. Growing up, she would always do my hair; she was always the one who would make me chocolate milk or rice when I came home.

People call me the human emoji because I think people recognize that if I'm ever thinking something or feeling a certain emotion, it goes straight to my face. So if I'm happy, you'll know I'm happy, and if I'm mad, you'll know I'm mad just by looking at me.

My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.

When you're a little girl, and you're watching the Olympics, and you see this very diverse group of gymnasts out there, and - I think this team, the Final 5, will inspire so many little girls to go out there and do what they love.

It's weird to hear anyone call me a role model.

The Olympics was really, really stressful because I had never done anything like it. At the same time, I was understanding something like that could never really happen again. I embraced it and took in everything.

I definitely take it as a really big responsibility on my shoulders to make sure I'm motivating my generation and the people around me and, hopefully, inspire people to try something new.

I knew when I started gymnastics, I wanted to have a lot of fun and eventually go to the Olympics. On the moments where I felt really down, I just remembered, 'You're almost there. Just keep going. Keep working hard.'