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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

If you think too far ahead, then it'll just stress you out.

I got a piece of a dead person's ligament in my body.

Growing up, there wasn't an exact Hispanic role model that I had. I didn't realize how big a difference I was making, going to the Olympics and being Hispanic, until I would be in an autograph session, and parents would come up to me and say, 'You know, our family is so proud of you, you're really doing Hispanics proud.'

My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.

I don't see it as pressure at all. I see it as such an honor to just in some sort of way represent Puerto Rico and Hispanics and all the girls out there.

Homeschooling is great because it's extremely lenient, and so if there's a day I come home from practice and mentally, I'm just exhausted, I can actually just save the test for the next day if I really have to.