“I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.”
"I say put mental health first."
- Simone Biles
Awareness
"I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I’ve been to three World Championships … so I think it’s like a win-win."
- Simone Biles
Balance
"Maybe it's good we don't know what will happen next in our stories, because if we did, we might not turn the page."
- Simone Biles
Hope
"You don’t have to be a robot all the time, and you don’t always have to seem happy out there."
- Simone Biles
Self-awareness
"If I disappoint someone, it’s their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don’t know me. I can’t control what they want."
- Simone Biles
Self-awareness
"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."
- Tina Fey
Taking Risks
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Taking Risks
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."
Taking Risks
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
- Thomas Aquinas
Taking Risks