When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.
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When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.
Personally, I think I am much calmer under incredibly stressful situations, and I've learned to deal with pressure and nerves, which is key to being a performer of any caliber.
I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.
I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.
I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.
My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters.
Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I'm having as much fun with it as possible.
I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.
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