Laurie Hernandez

Of course I'm very sassy.

— Laurie Hernandez

I never look at scores or anything.

— Laurie Hernandez

Dancing is so much fun.

— Laurie Hernandez

Through my life, I do want to inspire others.

— Laurie Hernandez

I would love to be an actress!

— Laurie Hernandez

I'm confident. I'm a crowd pleaser.

— Laurie Hernandez

Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.

— Laurie Hernandez

Sometimes you just don't know what to say.

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It's kind of like I won a gold medal with my family.

— Laurie Hernandez

Don't let people tell you that you can't do something.

— Laurie Hernandez

On Sundays, I just love to go to church and then relax the whole day!

— Laurie Hernandez

A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport.

— Laurie Hernandez

It's really hard to be all serious in the tango and not break into laughter.

— Laurie Hernandez

No matter what race or color you are, you can aspire to do something great.

— Laurie Hernandez

My athlete idol is Usain Bolt. He's inhumanly fast!

— Laurie Hernandez

I hope the Final Five has shown that everyone is capable of success if they work hard.

— Laurie Hernandez

I don't think that being Hispanic, being black, being white - I don't think that limits you to anything. I think everyone…

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My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.

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I am extremely close to my grandma. Growing up, she would always do my hair; she was always the one who would…

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I think it's amazing that I can go out there and be myself, and the fact that I'm carrying Puerto Rico on…

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When you're a little kid, and you're, like, thinking about the Olympics, and you just have this big expectation, it just lived…

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The Olympics, as a little kid, it was such a big goal that I created for myself, and I was able to…

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If I could go anywhere, I'd love to visit Greece someday because it looks so beautiful, and I'd also love to go…

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When I was a little kid, I looked up to other people, so I hope that I can inspire little kids.

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My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start,…

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When I perform and the crowd is cheering, there's a ringing noise in my head. I'm just zoned in, and even though…

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I knew when I started gymnastics, I wanted to have a lot of fun and eventually go to the Olympics. On the…

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Being able to wear contacts, you don't have to worry about your glasses falling off or how you look during your beam…

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I'm glad to be partnered with Orgullosa because I feel that now that I'm able to win a gold medal at the…

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I feel that, every day, God molds me into someone that He wants me to be. So if that means just, like,…

— Laurie Hernandez

The thing that makes me feel the most confident is definitely my smile. I like that my smile and my facial expressions…

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Homeschooling is great because it's extremely lenient, and so if there's a day I come home from practice and mentally, I'm just…

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I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico.

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People would be surprised to know I had a flip phone until 2015.

— Laurie Hernandez

Honestly, I don't really know the rules of tango!

— Laurie Hernandez

The first meal that I learned to make was scrambled eggs.

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As far as cartoons go, I watched a lot of 'Ed, Edd, n Eddy' when I was a kid.

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When I was 5, I was always joking around like, 'Oh man, I wanna go to the Olympics.'

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My greatest inspiration is my coach, Maggie Haney.

— Laurie Hernandez

The big cheat meal will be a cookies and cream milkshake.

— Laurie Hernandez