Flexibility is the greatest strength.

Every element of understanding of the physical world has flexibility.

Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.

Bodies change as we get older, and most people do not maintain the strength per pound or the flexibility that children have. Risks get higher as you advance in gymnastics and the fear factor comes into play, and therefore the mental challenge increases.

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.