All Shawn Johnson Quotes
- Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. Discipline
- After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. Biggest
- The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well! Amazing
- Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice. Inspirational
- A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. Almost Impossible
- 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… Back Full
- I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that. Ankle
- 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… Center
- My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal. Calm
- Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. Expected
- 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… Able
- Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. Gymnastics
- Gymnastics is so complex. Complex
- 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… Biggest
- I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus. Chicken
- I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. Basics
- I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. Athlete
- I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport. From
- I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad. Doubted
- I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life. Competing
- Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges. Challenges
- 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. Been
- My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do. Amount
- Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold. Course
- People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating. Extreme