Shawn Johnson Quotes
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Shawn Johnson Quotes & Sayings
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My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.
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Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
— Shawn Johnson
I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.
— Shawn Johnson
I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.
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I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life.
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Gymnastics is so complex.
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The body is an amazing machine ... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!
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I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.
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I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.
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People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
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It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.
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I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
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I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.
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We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
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My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.
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A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
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I don't want to be all power and muscle.
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I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
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To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
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It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.
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People put too much emphasis on looks.
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I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!
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I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.
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I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.
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Staying healthy and consistent is paramount.
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I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.
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Well-I don't know if anyone would really ask me to prom.
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Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
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I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.
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I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.
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I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.
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My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
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Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
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I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
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Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.
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I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off.
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Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.
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I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.
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Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
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Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.
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I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.
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After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
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