“It's amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn't matter because you can do anything.”
"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
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
- Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration
"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
- Socrates
Inspiration
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."
- Wilbur Wright
Inspiration
"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
Inspiration
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiration