Shawn Johnson Quotes

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.
My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
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!
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
Gymnastics is so complex.
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.
I don't know where I'm really going to cha cha, but hopefully I can find a place.
I don't want to be all power and muscle.
I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now.
I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!
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.'
I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.
I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.
I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.
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.
I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.
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