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, Discipline

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'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

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

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

Gymnastics, Timing, Movements

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 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

I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.
Shawn Johnson

Mom, Everywhere

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

Nothing, Healthy, Lifestyle

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

Team, Dream, Goals

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.
Shawn Johnson

I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.
Shawn Johnson

Love, Fish, Eat

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: January 19, 1992

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