(The referees) made a call that put us on penalty-kill and our whole team knew that we shouldn't be on penalty-kill. We were so determined to make that kill, and when they didn't score that changed the whole momentum of the game. |
And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics. |
At competitions they prepare a central challenge. |
Everyone here has always treated me like thier daughter. It doesn't matter who it is, and it was even before I won Olympic medals, it was, you know, when I was growing up, they knew I had a goal, they knew I had a dream, and they were willing to help me in any way possible. |
For ourselves, we need to play great hockey and sweep this weekend. |
Gymnastics has helped me so much, how to be dedicated to something, how to work hard to acheive your goals, also to be organized, and how to try and balance my life out. I think it's helped me in school too,because it's kept me organized and I'm always striving for a goal. |
I already do what I love doing, so it's more progressing toward getting more involved in the things that I'm already involved in. Maybe I might branch out into other areas but I don't know that there's going to be this sudden change in what I'm going to do because a lot of it I already am fortunate enough to get to do. |
I take a totally different approach to a lot of things now, school and my social life come before gym in a lot of ways, although I know that I still need to keep in shape, and stay healthy enough so that I can keep competing, and keep doing the shows, but it's not my whole life right now. |
I think the biggest thing for me was that it showed me there are a lot of other ways that I can continue in this sport even past competition days. That's really what this last 10 years has been about for me - finding myself and what I want to do after the Olympics, and finding ways to stay involved with the sport that I love. |
I was probably pretty frustrating to work with, because if I ever did anything wrong, I would just start crying. And it wouldn't be because I was hurt or anything like that, or because I didn't want to be there, I love gymnastics, but it was because I was such a perfectionist that anything I did wrong, you know, it just tore me up, and Steve dealt with that really well. |
I'm really proud of her and how she has developed. I think she has a good shot at it. She helped hold the team together. ... The other two are exceptional hockey players. So who knows. |
I've actually used the last two years. |
I've been around long enough to know that if you beat them 8-0, its extremely difficult to get the team to be focused the next night. And given the last couple of weeks ... |
If you're going to break down defensively, boy your keeper better be there and she was. |
In some ways, it feels like it was yesterday. And then other times, it feels like it was a completely different lifetime and I have to really think to know that I actually competed there and all of that really happened. |