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“Doing your best is more important than being your best.”
― Shannon Miller

“Other people may not have had high expectations for me...but I had high expectations for myself”
― Shannon Miller

“Fans still talk about my big white scrunchie, which became iconic in its own right. I loved that scrunchie and its little sparkles that Peggy glued on herself. Without my scrunchie, I wouldn’t have felt ready to compete. (Yes, I still have it.)”
― Shannon Miller, It's Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life

“confidence. If you pretend you are courageous over and over, you may eventually realize that you have become courageous.”
― Shannon Miller, It's Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life

“Maybe five extra push-ups won’t matter that night, but what if you do five extra push-ups twice a day six days a week for a year? Or for fifteen years, as I did? Eventually you realize it does make a difference. I was one of those that did extra. If Steve said, “Do a hundred toe-raises and twenty pull-ups,” I would do a hundred and five toe-raises and twenty-two pull-ups, while he counted.”
― Shannon Miller, It's Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life