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I had flops, I had success.

Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly intimate, as if you were somehow partly responsible for them.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

Once, right before a show, I realized I'd forgotten shoes. I didn't want to wear my flip-flops onstage because I could trip. I ended up going barefoot, which actually worked out because it became my 'thing.'

Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

To women, a flip-flopper is the functional equivalent of the guy who never calls and always changes his mind.

I never went to my high school dance, and didn't date much.