“I'd rather regret the risk 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
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage