11 Quotes by Sunisa Lee

For me, I know that people always expect me to be perfect, so when I'm not perfect, it's really frustrating. I'm really hard on myself and want things to work out right away.

When I'm scared of hurting myself, I start to overthink things and won't go for it.

I didn't even think that I could be competing for a gold medal; I was convinced I'd compete for a silver medal.

I realized that I could actually miss practice and rest, then come back to the gym and still have my skills.

After you take time off, it can be really scary to do the harder things you used to do, and I personally hate being scared.

It's just I spend more time on bars and beam. I obviously want to perfect those and get those to be the best that I can be because those are going to be my strongest events and the two events that I could contribute to the team.

I've talked to Simone Biles a lot, and it's really nice to get to know her in this way because she was my idol and I used to see her as this intimidating gold medalist, but now she's a friend.

I focus more on bars and beam just because those are my strongest events, and I just try and maintain whatever I can do on floor and vault. I'm consistently training on all events.

The uneven bars make me especially nervous because when you stop training, you lose sense of where the bar is going to be.