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Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.

I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me.