Success Quote by Carly Patterson

The sentence trails off on "hit" like an athlete’s version of a mic drop: the thought stops where the action starts. Carly Patterson isn’t trying to sound profound; she’s doing something more revealing. She compresses pressure into process. "We’re all really strong" is a quick morale check, the kind you deliver when a team or a meet is wobbling and confidence needs to be treated like a muscle. Strength here isn’t just physical. It’s composure, repetition, the willingness to be judged in public and still show up the next day.

The insistence on "keep working really hard" and "do our best" reads like boilerplate until you remember the culture of elite gymnastics: success is engineered, not improvised. Patterson’s rhetoric mirrors the sport’s logic - excellence is a stack of controllables. That’s the subtext: don’t spiral into outcome-thinking. Don’t narrativize. Drill the basics, trust the reps.

"If we...do our best we’ll win again" is the most interesting contradiction. It’s optimism with a conditional clause, a way to say victory is expected without sounding entitled. The "again" hints at a program’s momentum, the quiet confidence of athletes who have been on top and feel the obligation to stay there.

And then: "All we need to do is hit". In gymnastics vernacular, to "hit" is to land the routine cleanly, no major errors. It’s blunt, almost superstitious. Under the bright lights, the whole universe narrows to execution. The line’s power is its refusal to romanticize: the difference between glory and heartbreak is not destiny; it’s sticking the landing.