Shawn Johnson Quotes
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Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
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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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I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.
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In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA.
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When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.
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I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
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It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.
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It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.
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Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
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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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Staying healthy and consistent is paramount.
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When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.
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Well-I don't know if anyone would really ask me to prom.
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I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now.
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To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.
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A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
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My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
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I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!
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With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from
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I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.
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That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.
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I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.
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I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.
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I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.
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When it comes to gymnastics, you can be 30 points ahead going into that competition, but on that day, it's all about luck. It's about who has a good day, who stays healthy, it's how happy the judges are that day, there are so many different factors.
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Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.
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I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'
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It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.
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If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
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I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.
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