“I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all.”
— Simone Biles
From Biles autobiography Courage to Soar, 2016. Also repeated in interviews. A philosophy forged by a girl who went from foster care to the Olympic podium by choosing action over fear.
I was three years old in foster care, hungry, not knowing why I kept moving from house to house. At six I walked into a gym and started flipping. At sixteen I was world champion. At nineteen, four Olympic golds. At twenty-four, I lost my sense of direction mid-air and walked away from the biggest stage in the world. At twenty-seven, I came back and won it all again. Every single one of those moments was a risk. Take yours.