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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
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#Home
#Me
#Practice
#Start
I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.
- Shawn Johnson
#Attention
#Diet
#Pay Attention
#Pay
My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
- Shawn Johnson
#Calm
#Life
#Me
#Normal
#Other
I don't want to be all power and muscle.
- Shawn Johnson
#Muscle
#Power
#Want
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
#Day
#Happiness
#Heart
#Me
#Parents
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
#Day
#Doing
#Fitness
#Three
#Training
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
#Age
#Better
#Good
#Perfect
#Young
I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.
- Shawn Johnson
#Image
#Like
#Medals
#Sad
#Still
#Winning
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
#Dream
#Expectations
#Goals
#Team
#Want
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
#About
#Go
#Goals
#Train
#Want
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
- Shawn Johnson
#Discipline
#Lessons
#Life
#Me
#Respect
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
#Healthy Lifestyle
#Lifestyle
#Nothing
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
- Shawn Johnson
#Everything
#Precision
#Timing
#Your
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
#American
#Feel
#Meet
#Pain
#Two
Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.
- Shawn Johnson
#Challenges
#Face
#Injury
#Me
#Need
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
#Bad
#Body
#Myself
#Skill
#Thinking
Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
- Shawn Johnson
#Stand Up
#Stand
#Stay
#Strong
#Voice
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
#Anything
#Coach
#Outside
#Said
#Training
My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.
- Shawn Johnson
#Back
#I Am Back
#I Am
#Normal
#Training
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
#Day
#Focus
#Joy
#Reality
#Time
The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!
- Shawn Johnson
#Amazing
#Body
#Right
#Things
#Well
#Will
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