Quotes by Shawn Johnson - Page 2

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 / Gymnast
Perfect
Taught
Young Age
Such A Young Age
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Giving Up
Gymnastics
Retirement
Scary
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Girl
Strange
Training
Trials
Olympic
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Fitness
Gymnastics
Training
Two
Center
Extra
Six Days
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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 / Gymnast
Dream
Goal
London
Team
Biggest Dream
Fulfill
Olympic
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Focus
Needs
Skills
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Gymnastics
Heart
Mean
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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.'
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Beam
Constant
Doubt
Mind
Standing
Tears
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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 / Gymnast
Class
Mind
Muscles
Pilates
Relax
Great Mind Way
Great Way
Reformer
Stretch
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Hot yoga is the best. When you're in [class], there are no cell phones, no talking, no distractions. You're taking a leave from reality for an hour or so.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Yoga
Phones
Reality
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Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Kids
Sports
Fun
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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 / Gymnast
February
Gym
June
September
Surgery
Ended
Quickly
Repair
Rushed
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My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Gym
Olympics
Said
Skiing
Training
Wanted
Coach
Except
Outside
Rule
Ski
While
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Anxiety
Calm
Excitement
Focus
Joy
Nerves
One Day
One Day At A Time
Pressure
Reality
Trying
Feel
Possible
Stay
Day
Sets
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Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Broke
Gymnastics
Strong
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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!
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Goal
Gymnastics
Olympics
Thinking
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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 / Gymnast
Gym
Typical
Work Out
About An Hour
Assume
Consists
Event
Hour
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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 / Gymnast
Happiness
Heart
Teach
Within
Heart Your Me
Since
Biggest
Day One
Every Day
Parents
Influences
Outside
Supporters
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Class
Gymnastics
Parent
Love Me Energy
Bundle
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Gymnastics
Handle
Heartbreaking
Might
Compete
Prospect
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To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Athlete
Doubt
Hurt
Thinking
Weakness
Your Body
Physically
Hurts
Skill
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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 / Gymnast
Expecting
Normal
Pleased
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As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Gymnastics
Mistake
Perseverance
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I set my phone with motivational quotes to go off on random days and times. Like, 'You're stronger than you think you are.' I'll forget about it, then one will pop up and it'll give me a little boost.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Giving
Phones
Thinking
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Funny
Gymnast
Lucky
Olympics
Prepared
Sound
Just Kind
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Games
Pain
Residual
Struggle
Championships
Classics
Improved
Meet
Struggling
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Motivational
Sports
Gymnastics
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In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Accomplished
Blessing
Gymnastics
Harder
Olympics
Return
Tears
Elite
Tear
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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 / Gymnast
Myself Look Me
Helps
Motivating
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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 / Gymnast
Focused
Gymnastics
Elite
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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
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Book
Media
Race
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Literature
Relate
African
Background
Essentially
Muslim
Presented
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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 / Gymnast
Sports
Athlete
Taken
Considered
Work Day Drive
Competitive
Sport
Half Years
Missed
Shape
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Home
Decision
Gym
Practice
Squat
Coach
Home Me Start
Exactly What
Go Home
Jumps
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Good Day
Gymnastics
Judging
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Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Mom
Giving Up
Gymnastics
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I was always known as that stocky, muscular, powerful, short, athlete. People always wondered if I was on steroids, and it was because I wasn't that long and lean, flexible, artistic gymnast. It didn't affect me too much but it got to the point where I tried to be that long and lean gymnast, and it just wasn't possible.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Athlete
Long
Powerful
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I think it's important for girls at a young age to be involved in as many things as possible. Especially safe communities of people that teach them great life lessons like self-confidence and courage. And getting girls to go to camp especially in the summer where they can meet new friends, learn new things, and not just sit at home and watch TV.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Girl
Life Lesson
Summer
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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.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Opportunity
Athlete
Team
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I feel like if you compare the commentary, what's covered with female athletics, as with men. On any given day, if a guy competes, you're going to critique his technique and his performance, training. With a girl, you don't do the same thing. You might mention a little bit of that, but you're also going to get what she was wearing, how she performed, what she looked like. I feel like it should be the same.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Girl
Men
Guy
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