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

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

Shawn Johnson

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

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

Shawn Johnson

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

Shawn Johnson

I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

Shawn Johnson

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

Shawn Johnson

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

Shawn Johnson

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

I need to learn how to face challenges.

Shawn Johnson

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

Shawn Johnson

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

Shawn Johnson

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

Shawn Johnson

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

Shawn Johnson

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

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

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

Shawn Johnson

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

Shawn Johnson

Staying healthy and consistent is paramount.

Shawn Johnson

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

Shawn Johnson

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

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

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

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

Shawn Johnson

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

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

People put too much emphasis on looks.

Shawn Johnson

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

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

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

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

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

Shawn Johnson

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

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

Shawn Johnson

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

Shawn Johnson

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

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

Shawn Johnson