Top 54 Quotes & Sayings by MyKayla Skinner
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I see the opportunity to pursue an Olympic berth as a chance of a lifetime.
I got to be calm, but I mean, it's the Olympics. Anybody wants to go out and do their best, so it's definitely a different kind of pressure.
I'm just going to go out there and do me and worry about myself because that's all that matters.
After Rio, I joined the gymnastics team at the University of Utah. It was a hard transition, because I've always competed in elite gymnastics, where we throw big skills. In college, you don't get any points for difficulty, but once I got the hang of it, it was a piece of cake.
I just want to make my dreams come true.
The Olympics should be something so special, but I feel like it was definitely miserable at times.
I can't control who makes the team or not. I'm just happy to be an alternate.
I've accomplished so much. I'm just really proud of myself for even being able to do what I have.
College really helped me mature, and it's been so much better.
The Olympics are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I've worked so hard to get this far.
I survived, but I wanted to give up so many times.
I feel like anytime I have a vacation, I'm stressed, or 'I got to go back in the gym,' like I'm going to miss so much time that I need to be working on improving.
It's just so weird coming into the gym and not feeling like, you know, 'I'm going to die.' Before it was like, 'I've got to hit that routine or I'm going to get yelled at.' So it's just been really nice to kind of relax a little bit and be able to really focus on gymnastics and get to enjoy it more.
Worlds helped me me boost my confidence up a lot actually. It made me a bigger, better, stronger gymnast.
I've only been to Disneyland once, when I was 8.
Everyone says, 'Oh, it's hard because she's older.' But at the same time, I feel like I know how to make corrections faster, and I know what to fix.
I know what I want, my dreams and goals.
I'm just so honored that I never gave up and have kept pushing for my dreams to get here.
I'm usually high energy and super crazy.
I'm doing extra stretching and more leaps and turns. Working on toe points. I'm working hard on it.
A lot of people don't get to see the behind-the-scenes of what we go through and what it's like. We aren't perfect people. Everyone on social media is like, 'They're so perfect, they have their life together, gymnastics looks so easy.' We work our butts off to get to where we are.
I'm 24, which I know doesn't sound very old. But in the world of gymnastics it is. The Tokyo Games are my last shot to compete as a gymnast for Team USA, and my last shot at winning a gold medal.
It might look like it's easy, but no one really knows how hard it is. Especially when you go from a college bars routine that has four skills to elite with 10-12 or maybe even more. It's a big jump.
I know a lot of people say why rush to get married. But he's definitely the one and definitely a keeper.
I knew I would try for the Tokyo Olympics back in 2016. I was sitting in the stands as an alternate at the Rio Olympics, watching my teammates compete and thinking to myself, 'That could have been me.'
I have to be grateful I am in the gym. I'm just trying to plug away as much as I can before it might come to a point where I can't be in the gym at all.
For me, I'm just really excited to have a life.
Being an alternate is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do in gymnastics.
Nobody's perfect. I feel like I can handle the pressure pretty well, even though sometimes I feel like I'm psyching myself out a little bit.
I did three tumbling passes in college.
I'm enjoying gymnastics. Having people there to cheer you on is an amazing feeling and such a cool opportunity.
I miss out on tons of stuff.
I finally get to be an Olympian.
I think it's so cool to show that age is just a number, and that anything is possible if you work hard and dream for it.
In the end, there's more than just gymnastics.
It's pretty awesome to work this hard and come from Arizona.
It is hard when you fall. I know that feeling. That disappointment sucks. You've just got to get up and keep moving.
I've been working hard on my form.
Being married has been the best thing ever.
The whole time I was in Rio, I probably cried every single night.
If anyone asks me, 'Should you do college gymnastics?' I'd say do it. I'm glad I decided to take this route.
There's a lot of pressure being an Olympic athlete.
A year does go by kind of fast.
While I love college gymnastics, I'd like to try and compete for my country.
It was hard being an alternate for the third time. But for me, it was OK because I made the World team and looking back five months ago, I didn't think I'd have that opportunity.
I couldn't even think about elite gymnastics for a while. It was definitely good for me to try something different.
It's always hard being an alternate. Knowing you might not be put in, but you have to work just as hard. It's stressful.
I wasn't even expecting to make the Worlds team.
You never know what anyone's going through, and you always want to be there and be that teammate to support them.
That's really what gymnastics should be. It should always be a beautiful and inspiring thing to so many people.
Going to college, I definitely got that experience of having to be there for your team and you definitely learn that that is really important.
I'm doing fine with college.
This is what I'm supposed to do. This is what I'm meant to do, is elite gymnastics.
I am doing communications in journalism to do sports broadcasting. I'd love to go into that kind of stuff.
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