I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'

I thought celebrity meant Hollywood, that's it. I began to see that does include Olympians. People have so much respect for Olympians.

Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.

I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.