Shawn Johnson Quotes

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.
Shawn Johnson

Time, Focus, Reality

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
Shawn Johnson

Hard, Career, After

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
Shawn Johnson

Life, Respect, Everything

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

Great, Live, Mind

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!
Shawn Johnson

Amazing, Body, Eat

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
Shawn Johnson

Impossible, Almost, Comeback

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.'
Shawn Johnson

Fear, Mind, Doubt

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.
Shawn Johnson

Gym, September, Surgery

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.
Shawn Johnson

Fitness, Two, Training

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.
Shawn Johnson

Time, Same, Able

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
Shawn Johnson

Life, Calm, Normal

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

Great, Give, Tough

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
Shawn Johnson

Strong, Stand, Voice

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

Work, Practice, Gym

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.
Shawn Johnson

Training, Serious, Start

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
Shawn Johnson

Everything, Gymnastics, Timing

Gymnastics is so complex.
Shawn Johnson

Gymnastics, Complex

I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.
Shawn Johnson

I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.
Shawn Johnson

Someone, Motivating, Helps

I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.
Shawn Johnson

Result, Priority, Heal

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

Someone, Small, Young

I don't know where I'm really going to cha cha, but hopefully I can find a place.
Shawn Johnson

Find, Place, Hopefully

I don't want to be all power and muscle.
Shawn Johnson

I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now.
Shawn Johnson

Love, Time, Running

I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!
Shawn Johnson

Time, Sleep, Down

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Nationality: American

Born: January 19, 1992

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