Quotes By Shawn Johnson
I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.
Shawn Johnson
A typical practice consists of practicing every event for about an hour. A lot of people assume I have private coaching, but I work out with 13 other girls at the gym!
Shawn Johnson
I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.
Shawn Johnson
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.
Shawn Johnson
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
Shawn Johnson
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.
Shawn Johnson
I don't feel like a star; I never have. I don't feel like a star; I never have. I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one. I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.
Shawn Johnson
Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
Shawn Johnson
I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off.
Shawn Johnson
I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.
Shawn Johnson
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
Shawn Johnson
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
Shawn Johnson
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.
Shawn Johnson
I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.
Shawn Johnson
I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.
Shawn Johnson
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.
Shawn Johnson
I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
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
My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.
Shawn Johnson